how do I emulate read and update git global config file using gitPython?

Question

I want to reads git global config file using git config --list, so I can use to read and update the global config file ?

Answer 1

This will give you the ~/.gitconfig type config:

 globalconfig = git.GitConfigParser([os.path.normpath(os.path.expanduser("~/.gitconfig"))], read_only=True)

That's more or less what gitpython itself does, except it also uses "system" and "repo" level configs (where system is "/etc/gitconfig"), see

 def _get_config_path(self, config_level):

and

def config_reader(self, config_level=None):

in git/base.py in the source of gitpython