How to know the git username and email saved during configuration

Question

While configuring git I ran these two commands   git config --global user name  My Name   git config --global user email  myemail example com    However  I doubt whether I made a typo or not  So  is there any command to know the name and email which git saved during configuration  Obviously  I can know that using the git log command by looking at the commit history  But for that I have to make commits  right  Can I know that with the help of command line

User · Answer

If you want to check or set the user name and email you can use the below command

Check user name

git config user.name

Set user name

git config user.name "your_name"

Check your email

git config user.email

Set/change your email

git config user.email "[email protected]"

List/see all configuration

git config --list

User · Answer

Inside your git repository directory  run git config user name      Why is running this command within your git repo directory important    If you are outside of a git repository  git config user name gives you the value of user name at global level  When you make a commit  the associated user name is read at local level   Although unlikely  let s say user name is defined as foo at global level  but bar at local level  Then  when you run git config user name outside of the git repo directory  it gives bar  However  when you really commits something  the associated value is foo        Git config variables can be stored in 3 different levels  Each level overrides values in the previous level    1  System level  applied to every user on the system and all their repositories    to view  git config --list --system  may need sudo  to set  git config --system color ui true to edit system config file  git config --edit --system    2  Global level  values specific personally to you  the user      to view  git config --list --global to set  git config --global user name xyz to edit global config file  git config --edit --global   3  Repository level  specific to that single repository    to view  git config --list --local to set  git config --local core ignorecase true  --local optional  to edit repository config file  git config --edit --local  --local optional       How to view all settings     Run git config --list  showing system  global  and  if inside a repository  local configs Run git config --list --show-origin  also shows the origin file of each config item      How to read one particular config     Run git config user name to get user name  for example  You may also specify options --system  --global  --local to read that value at a particular level      Reference  1 6 Getting Started - First-Time Git Setup

User · Answer

List all variables set in the config file  along with their values  git config --list  If you are new to git then use the following commands to set a user name and email address  Set user name git config --global user name  quot your Name quot   Set user email git config --global user email  quot your email example com quot   Check user name git config user name  Check user email git config user email

User · Answer

To view git configuration type - git config --list  To change username globally type - git config --global user name  quot your name quot   To change email globally type - git config --global user email  quot your email quot

User · Answer

Sometimes above solutions doesn t work in macbook to get username n password    IDK why   here i got another solution     git credential-osxkeychain get host github com protocol https  this will revert username and password

User · Answer

Add my two cents here  If you want to get user name or user email only without verbose output    On liunx  type git config --list   grep user name     On windows  type git config --list   findstr user name    This will give you user name only

User · Answer

The command git config --list will list the settings  There you should also find user name and user email

User · Answer

Considering what  Robert said  I tried to play around with the config command and it seems that there is a direct way to know both the name and email   To know the username  type   git config user name   To know the email  type   git config user email   These two output just the name and email respectively and one doesn t need to look through the whole list  Comes in handy

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