Git provides different configurations like user name, user email, editor, coloring, etc. These configurations can be also set in different modes called global, user, and local. The git config --list command is used to print all of these different types or levels of configurations in the command-line interface.
List Git Configuration
The current git configuration can be listed with the following git config --list like below.
$ git config --listList System Git Configuration
System-wide git configuration can be listed with the --system option. The system-wide configuration is located inside /etc/gitconfig file.
$ git config --list --systemList Global Git Configuration
Global git configuration is used for the current user. The global git configuration is located inside ~/.gitconfig which is under the current user home directory.
$ git config --list --globalList Local Git Configuration
The local git configuration is used for a specific git repository. A user may have multiple git repositories. So in order to list local git configuration for a specific repository the command should be executed inside the repository. For example, is the repository is located at /home/ismail/nmap we should navigate using cd command.
$ cd /home/ismail/nmap
$ git config --list --local