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error: could not lock config file %C:\Users\Hen%/.gitconfig: Invalid argument

Subject: error: could not lock config file %C:\Users\Hen%/.gitconfig: Invalid argument

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2 messages between Apr 20, 2012 and Apr 20, 2012.

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hi i run as administrator git-gui and i get for every action that i make this error please help me best regards hen

Carlos Martín Nieto· Apr 20, 2012, 13:10 UTC · re: hen vertis · lore

Re: error: could not lock config file %C:\Users\Hen%/.gitconfig: Invalid argument

On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 15:52 +0300, hen vertis wrote:

> hi
> i run as administrator git-gui and i get for every action that i make 
> this error please help me

It looks like Windows parameter expansion gone awry. Your HOME setting seems get set to %%HOMEPATH%% instead of %HOMEPATH% or similar.

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