Getting global git config without local Repo

[Secrus]

Hello. As in the title, I want to read the global git config without having to first create a Repo instance or manually go through all the possible locations and config file formats. In the perfect world, I would see it as:

config = GitConfig()
print(config.get("user", "name"))

This is pretty close to what I found dulwich can do, but from what I have seen, I have to give values to the GitConfig myself instead of it being read automagically.
Thank you in advance!

[jelmer]

You can use StackedConfig.default() to get the config in /etc/gitconfig and ~/.gitconfig:

E.g.:

% python3
Python 3.13.9 (main, Oct 15 2025, 14:56:22) [GCC 15.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
f>>> from dulwich.config import StackedConfig
>>> x = StackedConfig.default()
>>> x.get("user", "name")
b'Jelmer Vernoo\xc4\xb3'

[Secrus]

Thank you!