Git warning: unable to access 'P:\/.gitconfig': Invalid argument

Question

I am just testing git. I ran the following command:

git config user.email \"test@mail.com\"

I now get this when git status and oth

Answer 1

I was facing this issue when loading a solution in Visual Studio 2017 (v15.1) running as an Administrator. And my local git repo was located in C:\Code\

To work around the problem,

1. I added an Environment Variable (under User variable) HOME with value C:\
2. Restarted Visual Studio (again as an admin) - this time Git was able to load successfully loading my branch & source control association correctly.