The git config parser don't look into files that are [included](http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_includes) into the .gitconfig file. For example: --- **~/.gitconfig** ``` [user] name = Ryan Carney email = email@personal.com [include] path = ~/.gitconfig_local ``` **~/.gitconfig_local** ``` [user] email = email@work.com ``` **gitpython_test.py** ``` import git repo = git.Repo("test_repo") reader = repo.config_reader() print reader.get("user", "email") ``` --- Given the above configuration you would expect **gitpython_test.py** to print `email@work.com` but instead it prints`email@personal.com`