Application specific configuration file; freely defined by applications.
User-specific configuration file, also called Global configuration file.
Represents the highest level of a config file.
Repository specific configuration file.
System-wide on Windows, for compatibility with portable git.
System-wide configuration file.
XDG compatible configuration file (.config/git/config).
Priority level of a config file. These priority levels correspond to the natural escalation logic (from higher to lower) when searching for config entries in git.git.