Cannot use git: "git fatal: an unknown error occurred while reading configuration files"

Question

I can not use any git commands, all of them lead to the following error:

fatal: unknown error occurred while reading the configuration files

Git worked fine until it replaced the hard drive. I created a Windows 10 system image and restored it to my new hard drive, and then merged the unallocated disk space into my main partition.

I tried reinstalling and installing git, restarting my computer and deleting .gitconfig files and almost any combination of these actions.

Answer 1

For me, the problem was .gitconfigfolder / dir in Users //. Removing dir .gitconfigresolved the issue and now it works fine.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

What was eventually fixed was to set the HOME environment variable to indicate something reasonable. Once that was done, git started behaving again again

Answer 4

A similar problem here. It was fixed by deleting the git configuration file in the HOMEDRIVE/ folder HOMEPATH.