How does [github] section of .gitconfig work?

Question

I'm wondering how github can read in these values? I could see a use of this for deployments etc. if I can define my own, custom sections.

Thanks

Answer 1

GitHub cannot read those values. If some random company on the other side of the world could just willy-nilly read any arbitrary files on your computer, that would be truly scary.

But of course any program you run on your computer can read those values. Including, for example, the hub command or the github command, which are two popular commandline clients for GitHub.