How to get the user.email config using gitpython ?

Question

I have a repo initialized as

r = git.Repo.init(dirPath)

How can I get the user.email field for the git config for that repo using gitpython?

Kirschner

Answer 1

After looking into the source of gitpython this is one way I managed to do it.

r = git.Repo.init(dirPath)
reader = r.config_reader()
field = reader.get_value("user","email")

Kirschner

In case the user.email config does not exist, the get_value function may throw and exception or return a default value. The user can affect that behavior by passing a default parameter named "default" to the get_value function. – Kirschner

How to do this without Repo object? Like getting global settings. – Afflictive

That's not yet possible, see github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/issues/775 – Continuator

Quick update: To access global settings directly, you can now use git.config.GitConfigParser().get_value(...) (see github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/pull/950) – Anabaptist