How to configure git

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Motivation

Working on different projects with different user info and settings you may find it necessary to dive deeper into the git configuration.

First of all you need to know that there are at least three git configuration files

Each level overrides values in the previous level, so local overwrites global, global overwrites system config.

The following tables shows the paths to the config files:

Level	Path on Windows	Path on macOS
System	C:\Program Files\Git\etc\gitconfig	/usr/local/git/etc/gitconfig
Global	C:\Users\<user_name>\.gitconfig	$HOME/.gitconfig
Local	e.g. C:\Users\<user_name>\PycharmProjects\<project_name>\.git\config	e.g /Users/<user_name>/PycharmProjects/python_katas/.git/config

[user]
   name = jboegeholz
   email = boegeholz.joern@gmail.com

To check if your configuration is complete / correct you can use:

git config user.name
git config --list

git remote set-url origin https://<token>@github.com/<username>/<repository>.git