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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?

asked Mar 1, 2017 at 17:01

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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")
answered Mar 5, 2017 at 19:39
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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.
How to do this without Repo object? Like getting global settings.
Quick update: To access global settings directly, you can now use git.config.GitConfigParser().get_value(...) (see github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/pull/950)

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