get user and email from $HOME/.gitconfig

this is the code, and the console.log() prints undefined。 But i can get the email value use ‘git config user.email’ in shell

async function f () {
    let value = await git.config(Object.assign({
        path: 'user.email',
    }, repo));

    console.log(value); 
}

[brettz9]

FWIW, I’m using the following workaround for Node:

const parseGitConfig = require('parse-git-config');
const getGitConfigPath = require('git-config-path');

exports.getGlobalGitAuthorInfo = async () => {
  const globalGitConfigPath = getGitConfigPath('global');
  const parsedConfig = await parseGitConfig({
    path: globalGitConfigPath
  });
  return parsedConfig;
};

I then use it by trying a regular commit without any author info supplied to commit, and if that errs, I use the following (with try-catches omitted):

const {user: {name: globalGitAuthorName, email: globalGitAuthorEmail}} = await getGlobalGitAuthorInfo();
 
await commit({repositoryPath, author: {
    name: globalGitAuthorName,
    email: globalGitAuthorEmail
}});

[wmhilton]

Is the value defined locally, in .git/config or globally in ~/.gitconfig? Right now isomorphic-git can only read the local repo config file, not the one in the home directory. (I haven’t figured out what the “home directory” would be in a browser environment.)