How can I remove an entry in global configuration with git config?

I ran a global configuration command in git to exclude certain files using a .gitignore_global file:

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global 

Is there a way to undo the creation of this setting globally?

10 Answers

I'm not sure what you mean by "undo" the change. You can remove the core.excludesfile setting like this:

git config --global --unset core.excludesfile 

And of course you can simply edit the config file:

git config --global --edit 

...and then remove the setting by hand.

You can use the --unset flag of git config to do this like so:

git config --global --unset user.name git config --global --unset user.email 

If you have more variables for one config you can use:

git config --global --unset-all user.name 

Open config file to edit :

git config --global --edit 

Press Insert and remove the setting

and finally type :wq and Enter to save.

Try this from the command line to change the git config details.

git config --global --replace-all user.name "Your New Name" git config --global --replace-all user.email "Your new email" 

You can check all the config settings using

git config --global --list 

You can remove the setting for example username

git config --global --unset user.name 

You can edit the configuration or remove the config setting manually by hand using:

git config --global --edit 

Try these commands to remove all users' usernames and emails.

git config --global --unset-all user.name git config --global --unset-all user.email 

In order to complement the larsk anwser, is possible remove an entry line while editing with vim using the dd command:

git config --global --edit 

then:

• Press the Esc key to go to normal mode.
• Place the cursor on the line you want to delete.
• Type dd and hit Enter to remove the line.

when you finish, type ESQ and :wq

If someone just wanna delete the user object entirely, then he should use:

git config --global --remove-section user 

This is useful when a user accidentally adds more properties that are not required just like user.password etc.

You can edit the ~/.gitconfig file in your home folder. This is where all --global settings are saved.

git config information will stored in ~/.gitconfig in unix platform.

In Windows it will be stored in C:/users/<NAME>/.gitconfig.

You can edit it manually by opening this files and deleting the fields which you are interested.