Type	Scope	Location	Notes
system	All repositories for every user on this computer.	`/etc/gitconfig`	-
global	All repositories of a particular user	`~/.gitconfig`	Directly below home
local	A specific repository	`repository/.git/config`	Under `.git` of the repository

Settings take precedence in the following order: local, global, system. For example, if the same setting is configured in both system and local, the value of local will be used.

You can view the list of all configurable settings from the official documentation: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config.html#_variables

A few examples include:

color.ui: controls Git output color coding (set to auto by default)
core.editor: editor used for editing commit messages

Checking settings configuration

Single variable

You can check the current configuration for each variable using the following command:


        
        
            
                
                
                    git config <name>

where <name> refers to the name of the variable you would like to check the configuration for.

For example, to check the current configuration for the core.editor variable:


        
        
            
                
                
                    git config core.editor

To check the configuration at a particular level (local, system, global):


        
        
            
                
                
                    git config --local core.editor
git config --global core.editor
git config --system core.editor

NOTE

As local is a per repository setting, the --local option is only valid when the command is run within the repository.

All configured variables

To display all configured variables and their values that are enabled at the place where the command is executed:


        
        
            
                
                
                    git config -l
                
            
            credential.helper=osxkeychain

Again, it is possible to just check the configurations at a particular level (local, system, global):


        
        
            
                
                
                    git config --local -l
git config --global -l
git config --system -l

Modifying settings configuration

To change the configuration of a particular variable:


        
        
            
                
                
                    git config <name> <value>

where:

<name> refers to the name of the variable you would like to check the configuration for
<value> refers to the new value to set for the variable

By default, running the above command will change the local configurations.

To change the global, system configurations of a particular variable:


        
        
            
                
                
                    git config --global <name> <value>
git config --system <name> <value>

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