Git - how to show username and email?

1. Overview

In this post we cover topic of how to show username and email configurations with git.

We can show configurations for:

1. global (all repositories)
2. single repository

Git configuration works the same under Windows, Linux and macOS.

2. Git - show global username and email configuration

1. Open command line (eg git bash)
2. Show username and email

   # show username
   git config user.name
   # show email
   git config user.email

3. Git - show username and email configuration for single repository

1. Open command line (eg git bash) and change directory into specific repository
2. Show username and email

   # show username
   git config user.name
   # show email
   git config user.email

4. Git - set username and email

It is outside of the scope of this post and we cover this topic under below post, link:
Git - how to set username and email?

References

1. Git config - Docs
2. Getting Started - First-Time Git Setup
3. Github - Setting your commit email address