parse-git-config/README.md

# parse-git-config [![NPM version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/parse-git-config.svg)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-git-config) [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/jonschlinkert/parse-git-config.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/parse-git-config)

> Parse `.git/config` into a JavaScript object. sync or async.

## Install

Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/):

```sh
$ npm install parse-git-config --save
```

## Usage

```js
var git = require('parse-git-config');

// sync
var config = git.sync();

// or async
git(function (err, config) {
  // do stuff with err/config
});
```

**Custom path and/or cwd**

```js
git.sync({cwd: 'foo', path: '.git/config'});

// async
git({cwd: 'foo', path: '.git/config'}, function (err, config) {
  // do stuff 
});
```

**Example result**

Config object will be something like:

```js
{ core:
   { repositoryformatversion: '0',
     filemode: true,
     bare: false,
     logallrefupdates: true,
     ignorecase: true,
     precomposeunicode: true },
  'remote "origin"':
   { url: 'https://github.com/jonschlinkert/parse-git-config.git',
     fetch: '+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*' },
  'branch "master"': { remote: 'origin', merge: 'refs/heads/master', ... } }
```

## Related projects

* [parse-author](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-author): Parse a string into an object with `name`, `email` and `url` properties following npm conventions.… [more](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-author) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/parse-author)
* [parse-authors](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-authors): Parse a string into an array of objects with `name`, `email` and `url` properties following… [more](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-authors) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/parse-authors)
* [parse-github-url](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-github-url): Parse a github URL into an object. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/parse-github-url)
* [parse-gitignore](https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-gitignore): Parse a gitignore file into an array of patterns. Comments and empty lines are stripped. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/parse-gitignore)

## Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/parse-git-config/issues/new).

## Building docs

Generate readme and API documentation with [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb):

```sh
$ npm install verb && npm run docs
```

Or, if [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb) is installed globally:

```sh
$ verb
```

## Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

```sh
$ npm install -d && npm test
```

## Author

**Jon Schlinkert**

* [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert)
* [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert)

## License

Copyright © 2016 [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert)
Released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/parse-git-config/blob/master/LICENSE).

***

_This file was generated by [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb), v0.9.0, on February 26, 2016._