I used command:
git config --global alias.st status
to add my first alias as suggested by post - How do I alias commands in git?
Then, I found it being added to config file at:
C:\Users\damodar.bashyal\.gitconfig
So, i added bunch of aliases directly on the config file and all worked perfectly until today when I had to restart my computer after installing MYOB software.
When i tried to use alias none worked. So, i added another alias using above command, but the file didn't get updated but new alias worked fine.
So after struggling for a while found a command at [ Where does git config --global get written to? ] to look for the config file:
git config --global --edit
To my surprise, it was showing different location with new git alias added in it.
.gitconfig(~) - VIM
[gui]
recentrepo = C:/_projects/example.com/trunk/bitbucket
[user]
name = damu
[alias]
st = status
Is there a way to change back path to previous .gitconfig file?
I am using windows 7 and msysgit.
c:\>echo %HOME%
%HOME%
c:\>set HOME
HOMEDRIVE=U:
HOMEPATH=\
HOMESHARE=\\agsbs\UserShares\Damodar.Bashyal
c:\>echo %HOME%
%HOME%
UPDATE: followed this post [ Change User location(home variable) in Egit (Eclipse) ] to set missing HOME environment variable and now i am getting this:
c:\>set HOME
HOME=C:\Users\damodar.bashyal
HOMEDRIVE=U:
HOMEPATH=\
HOMESHARE=\\agsbs\UserShares\Damodar.Bashyal
That also fixed my issue. YAY!!!
gitconfig is used to store a per-user configuration as fallback values for the . git/config file. The file /etc/gitconfig can be used to store a system-wide default configuration. The configuration variables are used by both the Git plumbing and the porcelains.
Check what your HOME
references:
echo %HOME%
# or
set HOME
git config --global
will reference the HOME
path (unless you would use the --file option).
HOME isn't defined by default on Windows, but it is set by the git-cmd.bat
script included with msysgit.
@if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
@if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%USERPROFILE%
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