Support for this second user-specific configuration file was added to git in [v1.7.12](https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt). See [commit comments](https://github.com/git/git/commit/21cf32279120799a766d22416be7d82d9ecfbd04) and [git documentation](https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html#FILES) for details. Consider adding a "user" [config_level](https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/blob/11e0a94f5e7ed5f824427d615199228a757471fe/git/repo/base.py#L78) to [Repo.config_reader](https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/blob/11e0a94f5e7ed5f824427d615199228a757471fe/git/repo/base.py#L335) between "system" and "global".