Configuration targets

In this section, we will look at the different layers that can be configured. The layers are:

• SYSTEM: This layer is system-wide and found in /etc/gitconfig
• GLOBAL: This layer is global for the user and found in ~/.gitconfig
• LOCAL: This layer is local to the current repository and found in .git/config

Getting ready

We will use the jgit repository for this example; clone it or use the clone you already have from Chapter 1, Navigating Git, as shown in the following command:

$ git clone https://git.eclipse.org/r/jgit/jgit
$ cd jgit

How to do it...

In the previous example, we saw how we could use the command git config --list to list configuration entries. This list is actually made from three different levels of configuration that Git offers: system-wide configuration, SYSTEM; global configuration for the user, GLOBAL; and local repository configuration, LOCAL.

For each of these configuration layers, we can query the existing configuration. On a Windows box with a default installation...