Querying the three layers of configuration simply returns the content of the configuration files; /etc/gitconfig for system-wide configuration, ~/.gitconfig for user-specific configuration, and .git/config for repository-specific configuration. When not specifying the configuration layer, the returned value will be the effective value.
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