how to change gitconfig location?

Question

I am running this command under windows 7:

git status

Now I am getting this error:

fatal: unable to access 'H:\/.config/git/config

I am disconnected from the network at the moment. Can I still fix this by changing the config location or creating a new config?

Answer 1

Can I still fix this by changing the config location or creating a new config?

You can simply change your environment variable HOME, in order to reference an existing local folder

set HOME=C:\local\path

In that folder, a .gitconfig can be defined in order to have a global git config file.

The msysgit/msysgit/git-cmd.bat defines it by default to:

@if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%USERPROFILE%