How do I show my global Git configuration?

Question

I\'d like to show all configured Git sections.

I only found git config --get core.editor, and I\'d like to output everything that\'s configured globally

Answer 1

You can also call git config -e to open the configuration file in your editor directly. The Git configuration file is much more readable that the -l output, so I always tend to use the -e flag.

So to summarise:

git config -l  # List Git configuration settings (same as --list)
git config -e  # Opens Git configuration in the default editor (same as --edit)

• Without parameters it interacts with the local .git/config.
• With --global it interacts with ~/.gitconfig.
• And with --system it interacts with $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig.

(I couldn't really find what $(prefix) means, but it seems to default to $HOME.)