错误的 git 配置文件 .git/config

Question

In my git repositiory, whenever I do any git commands like git status or git log , I get the error:
fatal: bad config file line 1 in .git/config
How do I rebuild that file or a new one?

Answer 1

对于那些在 Windows 中遇到此问题的人（我认为这是由于 git mid init 崩溃？），如果您最近从 git repo 的 .git/ 文件夹中备份了配置文件，则可以通过用它替换现有文件来修复它（添加任何引用，因为副本显然需要重新添加） - 一点也不理想，但比丢失所有提交要好。

Answer 2

I know on some tutorials they ask you to put the below code, but what they actually mean is that they're the commands you type into the terminal: git config --global user.name "NewUser" git config --global user.email newuser@example.com

If you were modifying the file ( $ nano ~/.gitconfig ), you would put this into your file instead:

[user]
name = WilliamQLiu
email = WilliamQLiu@myemailaddress.com

Answer 3

My issue was related to my global config which Git resolved to $HOME/.gitconfig , however the underlying cause happened to be irrespective of the location.

> git config --global -l
fatal: bad config file line 1 in C:\Users\<user>/.gitconfig

I have a habit of symlink-ing the config files in my home directory to a nested Git repository for maintaining the files across my multiple development environments. It turns out that Cygwin's implementation of a symbolic link doesn't make much sense to Git running under Windows.

I changed the symbolic link to a hard link and somehow this works ok. I was able to verify this by opening the .gitconfig link within Windows; when using a symbolic link the file contained binary data however the hard-linked file contains the content as expected.

Answer 4

Its better to execute the two commands

git config --global user.name "NewUser"
git config --global user.email newuser@example.com

in the terminal. This in turn will update the config file.

Answer 5

I had the same problem (Notepad++ showed only NULL characters in the file).

I managed to solve it by creating a new repo (in a seperate folder) with git init and copying .git/config over from there.

Remotes were missing after that, but everything worked after readding them manually.

Answer 6

I too had same issue, managed to fix it by below steps.

1. deleted .gitconfig file from, c:\\users[username] (created backup incase not worked, but its not needed.)
2. restarted source tree and File->Open->[your repository].

Answer 7

I get the same symptom. I'm using Cygwin on Windows, and when I launch a process "git clone" for instance the error message is "fatal: bad config line 1 in c:/cygwin/home/myhome/.getconfig"

The problem is obviously on the file name which is a mix between windows c: and cygwin/unix path. ;-) What is misleading is the "line 1" message while it should say "config file not found".

I don't know how this is produced as I do have neither %HOMEPATH% neither $HOME set

Answer 8

I had the same problem right after initial installation.

"fatal: bad config line 1 in file C:\\ProgramData/Git/config"

I opened notepad as administrator, navigated to the file listed in the error message. The file was also blank but it had spaces/tabs so I deleted them saved the file. And now it works

Answer 9

For me the problem was that I edited the file in Mac TextEdit app, which is set by default to transform "standard" double-quotes into “angled” double-quotes.

In .git/config , the correct double-quotes are: " (UNICODE U+0022 QUOTATION MARK)

In my case, I fixed the following line:

WRONG: [remote “origin”]

CORRECT: [remote "origin"]

PS: If you want that Mac TextEdit doesn't "smartly" change the double-quotes, go to "Preferences" and un-check "smart quotes".

Answer 10

I was getting this error in Windows 8.1 with GitHub for Windows client 2.14.*

None of the git repositories cloned in my local were accessible. Branches names, changed files, history, etc. were not visible.

Opening the Git Shell and trying to check repository status using git status was giving a error message fatal: bad config file ... at C:\\Users\\MyUser\\AppData\\Local\\GitHub\\PortableGit_xxxxx06exx6fdf878271f7fe636a147ff37326ad\\etc\\gitconfig

So I deleted gitconfig file at this path and closed Git shell and Git client. Starting Git client again and the repository is back to normal.

Answer 11

I deleted .git/config at the root of my repository folder because that's the bad config file name that was given in the error message.

I then re-opened SourceTree (that's what I normally use) and everything except the remotes were there.

Answer 12

For me, i opened the config file and deleted everything in it. I backed up the repository and re-cloned the repository. I then manually applied my changes from the backed-up repository.

I should be noted that remote tracking information will be lost when the config is cleared. You can re-add the remote host but proved tedious for me.

Answer 13

他们能做的最好的事情是将所有文件复制到另一个路径中，除了文件夹 .git 然后克隆上次提交，该提交设法上传并粘贴移动到另一个路径的文件，以便它们被覆盖并允许新提交。

Answer 14

For Cygwin it messed up my username in the .gitconfig file. My username was created as domain\\username and apparently that backslash is escaping the 's'.

So, if after you type git status you get this:

fatal: bad config line 2 in file /cygdrive/c/Users/yourname/.gitconfig

Then do this:

1. vi /cygdrive/c/Users/yourname/.gitconfig
2. Edit the variable name to show a normal name (ie Donald Trump)
3. Edit the variable email to show a valid email value (ie dtrump@whouse.gov)
4. Edit the variable username to show a simple username with no backslash (ie dtrump)

So the suggestion above is useful... Right before you create your git repository ( git init ), set up these variables right away:

git config --global user.name "NewUser"
git config --global user.email newuser@example.com

Because the default values are most likely not correct.

Answer 15

What worked for me on Windows was just to copy the config files present in C:\\ProgramData\\Git\\config from another machine. It's new content became what's shown below, which replaced the gibberish that was there before:

[core]
    symlinks = false
    autocrlf = true
    fscache = true
[color]
    diff = auto
    status = auto
    branch = auto
    interactive = true
[help]
    format = html
[rebase]
    autosquash = true

Answer 16

If your .gitconfig file seems to be fine (having correct data) you can copy and paste the same data again into it so that the file edit date is modified. This seemed to work fine for me. And just to avoid the issue in future take a backup of the same file and save as "backup.gitconfig_bak" or any name you like.

Answer 17

搜索配置文件并删除其中的所有空格对我有用。

Answer 18

On Jenkins, check the error message for the git-hash-string. Just delete the /var/jenkins/home/caches/git-hash-string git-hash-string@tmp. You may need root permissions to delete all files from the git-hash-string/.git folder.

When you restart the build, everything works fine again.

Answer 19

I just had the same problem after I changed the email which was on the config file. I signed up for git using xxxx@gmail.com , then git generated an email for me like xxxxxx@users.noreply.github.com . The original email on the config file was xxxxxx@users.noreply.github.com . Changing it to the email I signed up with xxxx@gmail.com caused the problem. To solve it, I logged into my git account online, visited Settings and navigated to the Email section and located the GitHub generated email from this section that reads like:

Primary email address Because you have email privacy enabled, xxxxx@gmail.com will be used for account-related notifications as well as password resets. xxxx@users.noreply.github.com will be used for web-based Git operations (eg edits and merges).

From the console, I run sudo nano ~/.gitconfig Entered my computer password, then changed the email from xxxx@gmail.com back to the Github email xxxx@users.noreply.github.com . Then hit (ctr + O) to save, then hit enter, then hit (ctr + x) to close the terminal. To be sure it worked, I cloned the repo again using git clone https://github.com/xxxxx where xxxx is the repo and it worked. :)

Answer 20

This can be happen if you manually edit .gitconfig file . in the C:\\Users\\.gitconfig (you can edit it using Notepad++ ) open it and check these lines.

 [user]
        name = <your username>
        email = <your email>
    [core] 
        editor = <editor location>

you can change those line. if you add wrong line to editor variable it can lead to an error. simply you can delete this line. but make sure to get back up of it. Or you can check right code/path to connect with your text editor and replace it with new working code/path.

Then save it. (this can be more helpful to android studio users)

Answer 21

I don't see a way to find the exact error, git only shows a line number, so I'm posting my troubleshooting steps in case it helps anyone.

I had this problem trying to add an alias to my ~/.gitconfig global file via a text editor (emacs). I discovered my problem by instead using this command to edit the config:

git config --global alias.<my_alias> 'my new command'

I was creating an alias to show just the branch that I am on:

$ git config --global alias.thisbranch '!thisbranch() { git branch | grep \* | cut -d " " -f2; }; thisbranch'

The problem was that the * character needed to have a \\\\ double escape in the ~/.gitconfig file since the \\ escape character needed to be escaped (the command was now nested in a string), but I was using only the single escape character \\ .

So my git config looks like this now:

[alias]
        ...
        ...
        thisbranch = "!thisbranch() { git branch | grep \\* | cut -d \" \" -f2; }; thisbranch"

Answer 22

I had the same issue for my Android project. So I just did following in Android Studio: File -> Invalidate Cache and Restart. It helped me.

Answer 23

我有类似的推送问题，我可以使用以下方法修复它：

git config --global push.default matching

Answer 24

First of all, a file corruption may be a symptom of file system problems (it was in my case), so to prevent further data loss, boot into the rescue mode, and before mounting the partition run disk check utility on it (eg fsck -n or xfs_repair -n ).

But if you are using Jenkins , then finding the corrupted .git/config file may not be easy. It is stored locally in at least two copies:

• in the local copy of the remote repo cloned by Jenkins into <JENKINS_HOME>/<remote_repo_name> AND
• cached in one of the many git-* folders in <JENKINS_HOME>/caches .

Answer 25

对于我来说是删除文件 .gitconfig 并且它解决了

Answer 26

我从我的目录中删除 [.git] 并使用 [git init] 再次重新初始化，一切都对我有用

Answer 27

I was facing the same issue!

The simple solution is that: Delete your flutter SDK and download the latest version of flutter SDK.

You can download it by the following link: https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install

It happens when Flutter releases the new version of flutter SDK but you are running a lower version, so some libraries show you an error.

Answer 28

I was also facing the same issue,so i went to the file path and c:\\User\\.gitconfig and deleted all contents inside it and saved it. Now it is working $ git --version git version 2.22.0.windows.1