Display Git Configuration
From time to time I tend to forget what’s my effective Git configuration, so I have to check it somehow. Most of the time I’d simply do the following:1
$ git config --list
user.name=Bozhidar Batsov
user.email=bozhidar@example.org
pull.rebase=true
credential.username=bbatsov
core.repositoryformatversion=0
core.filemode=true
core.bare=false
core.logallrefupdates=true
remote.origin.url=git@github.com:bbatsov/batsov.com.git
remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
branch.master.remote=origin
branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master
This works great, but there’s one small problem with the output - it’s hard to figure out if something is a global setting
or a repo-specific setting. If only there was a way to show where each config value is coming from… Enter --show-origin:
$ git config --list --show-origin
file:/home/bozhidar/.gitconfig user.name=Bozhidar Batsov
file:/home/bozhidar/.gitconfig user.email=bozhidar@example.org
file:/home/bozhidar/.gitconfig pull.rebase=true
file:/home/bozhidar/.gitconfig credential.username=bbatsov
file:.git/config core.repositoryformatversion=0
file:.git/config core.filemode=true
file:.git/config core.bare=false
file:.git/config core.logallrefupdates=true
file:.git/config remote.origin.url=git@github.com:bbatsov/batsov.com.git
file:.git/config remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
file:.git/config branch.master.remote=origin
file:.git/config branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master
Now, that’s more like it! But wait, there’s more!
Since Git 2.26.0, you can use the --show-scope option to achieve a similar result:
$ git config --list --show-scope
system rebase.autosquash=true
system credential.helper=helper-selector
global core.editor=emacs
local core.symlinks=false
local core.ignorecase=true
It can be combined with --show-origin or the following flags:
--localfor repository config--globalfor user config--systemfor all users’ config
Pretty much everything related to git config can be combined with those flags.
Here’s how to list only the settings defined within the current repository:
$ git config --list --show-origin --local
file:.git/config core.repositoryformatversion=0
file:.git/config core.filemode=true
file:.git/config core.bare=false
file:.git/config core.logallrefupdates=true
file:.git/config remote.origin.url=git@github.com:bbatsov/batsov.com.git
file:.git/config remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
file:.git/config branch.master.remote=origin
file:.git/config branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master
Of course, you can also consult specific settings if you remember their names:
$ git config user.email
bozhidar@example.org
$ git config --show-origin user.email
file:.git/config bozhidar@example.org
I rarely do this, as I’m struggling to remember even some of the basic config options, but your memory might be better than mine.
That’s all I’ve got for you today. I hope you learned something useful! I also hope I’ll finally remember --show-scope!
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Admittedly, first I’d often try
git configand then start to wonder what was the proper command. ↩