fatal: bad config line 1 in file .git/config

Question

fatal: bad config line 1 in file .git/config

In trying to run flutter i am getting this error. I tried flutter upgrade --force, flutter channel stable as well as reinstalling flutter but none of these commands fix the error

Answer 1

I solved the issue by deleting the config file under flutter/.git/config and then running

git init

command in the flutter directory. Then ran flutter doctor and all is good.

Answer 2

Your $FLUTTER_INSTALL_DIR/.git/config should look something like this:

[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
        ignorecase = true
        precomposeunicode = true
[remote "origin"]
        url = https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "stable"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/stable
[branch "beta"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/beta
[branch "dev"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/dev

Please note that this is not one of your git repos. If it doesn't look like this, reinstall flutter.