Three levels of GIT config

.gitconfig

# There are 3 levels of git config; project, global and system.

# project: Project configs are only available for the current project and stored in .git/config in the project's directory.
# global: Global configs are available for all projects for the current user and stored in ~/.gitconfig.
# system: System configs are available for all the users/projects and stored in /etc/gitconfig.

# Create a project specific config, you have to execute this under the project's directory.
$ git config user.name "John Doe"

# Create a global config
$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"

# Create a system config
$ git config --system user.name "John Doe"

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good information

awesome

Thank you. :)

Very well explained :)

I don't think this is an accurate depiction of how it works in Windows. I have a file called ProgramData/Git/config that defines neither the system nor the global git config settings, yet is picked up by the git config -l command,

Not sure why.

Good point @JackZylkin
Just for the sake of completeness let me add SO thread https://stackoverflow.com/a/32849199.
One can also verify where the config is coming from by using git config -l --show-origin

Thanks

very useful, thank you

Thanks for the summary ❤️

TIL. Thanks!

Thank You!

Thanks!

For helping Windows users:

• project: Project configs are only available for the current project and stored in .git/config in the project's directory.
• global: Global configs are available for all projects for the current user and stored in the user's folder: C:/Users//.gitconfig.
• system: System configs are available for all the users/projects and stored where Git is installed which is by default C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig.