Local Git configuration: File named config in the .git folder of the local repo Of course, seeing is believing, so here's an image showing each file and each location. I pulled the image from an …

Oct 29, 2010 · Git expects to find its configuration file in this location by default, and there isn't a built-in option to change this default behavior. However, you can override the default location …

Feb 27, 2016 · You can add configurations to either .gitconfig/.git/config using the git config command. Eg: git config user.name "Jane Doe" adds a user.name entry in your current …

Sep 29, 2015 · As this commit explains, they've added another config location only for Windows, which is applied even before the --system: The file /etc/gitconfig can be used to store a system …

In short you just use --edit to git config: git config --system --edit git config --global --edit git config --local --edit If you replace the environment-variable EDITOR with e.g. echo you can receive it …

So an easy way to avoid having to know where the file lives is to use git config --global to set things. My recommendation is to use git config --global core.editor name of your favorite editor …

Aug 11, 2019 · git config --global --get user.name shows your username. git config --global --get user.email displays your email. git config --global credential.helper verify credentials. git config …

Jan 14, 2021 · Running git config --list --show-origin on a Windows 10 machine shows me that the location of .gitconfig is in a remote location. I don't know how it ended there! I tried few steps …

Oct 4, 2023 · It is a good idea not to create this file if you sometimes use older versions of Git, as support for this file was added fairly recently. It does not change the global config, but offers …

Sep 12, 2019 · Visual Studio 2022 stores default git configuration data in the. C:\Users\<user>\.gitconfig file that can be overridden in each Project's...\.git\config file. For …