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

Thanks @daniel-hilgrath, your answer helped me till an extent, it did solve for that particular session.

But in my case I was using SourceTree and on Windows 7. I had to wipe out the Environment variables completely, not only for particular session. I did following.

SETX HOMEPATH ""
SETX HOMEDRIVE ""

may be this could be useful for someone who is using this on SourceTree.