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I'm wondering how github can read in these values? I could see a use of this for deployments etc. if I can define my own, custom sections.

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GitHub cannot read those values. If some random company on the other side of the world could just willy-nilly read any arbitrary files on your computer, that would be truly scary.

But of course any program you run on your computer can read those values. Including, for example, the hub command or the github command, which are two popular commandline clients for GitHub.

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So if you don't use hub or github commands or github clients, then those settings are not used when you're pushing a repo to GitHub?
@Misha: Correct; those config parameters are not part of git.
@Misha M: No, the normal git client doesn't use them. But your own shell scripts or git hooks could, for example.
+1 for will nilly reminds me of the old net zero commercials. classic.

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