When you have an include statement in the user.gitconfig there content will take precedence over the local.git/config of the repository.

E.g. the following code:
entry = repo.config_reader().get_value('gitlab', 'url')

With the following config setup:

~/.gitconfig:

[include]path = ~/.gitconfig-local[gitlab]url = url1

~/.gitconfig-local:

[gitlab]url = url2

.git/config:

[gitlab]url = url3

Will returnurl2 I would expect to receiveurl3 instead as local config should take precedence as the include was in a more global config.

Looks like the issue resides inside theread function e.g.

As the function is just to big, I'm not able to provide a fix.

Versions in use:

>>> import git; git.__version__'2.1.3'

python --versionPython 2.7.13