How to know the git username and email saved during configuration?

Question

While configuring git I ran these two commands:

git config --global user.name "My Name"  git config --global user.email "[email protected]" 

However, I doubt whether I made a typo or not. So, is there any command to know the name and email which git saved during configuration? Obviously, I can know that using the git log command by looking at the commit history. But for that I have to make commits, right? Can I know that with the help of command line?

Answer 1

The command git config --list will list the settings. There you should also find user.name and user.email.

Answer 2

Considering what @Robert said, I tried to play around with the config command and it seems that there is a direct way to know both the name and email.

To know the username, type:

git config user.name 

To know the email, type:

git config user.email 

These two output just the name and email respectively and one doesn't need to look through the whole list. Comes in handy.