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Re: config commands not working _Noobe question

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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 23, 2015, 03:05 UTC
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Greg Ledger <gledger@glcdelivers.com> wrote:
> after adding git config ‹global user.name Greg Ledger and git config
> ‹global user.email gledger@glcdelivers.com, when I run:
> source ~/.gitconfig

The ~/.gitconfig file is not a shell script. You should not source it. It is a text file that is read by Git commands when those commands are run.

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