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.

Answer 2

I just encountered this error.
Executing set HOMEPATH in the command line gave this output:

HOMEPATH=\

Simply deleting this environment variable via set HOMEPATH= fixed the problem.

Answer 3

For me, I have seen this error in sourcetree, it was just a matter of disconnecting the drive P in my computer as it was a net drive.

Answer 4

I hit on this and had to set HOMEDRIVE to something sane.

e.g.

set HOMEDRIVE=D:

Answer 5

I experienced this error message intermittently.

The cause was a VPN connection that I used occasionally. It was blocking access to my networked HOMEDRIVE every time I used it; and git could no longer access the config file.

Clearly not the cause here because you found your solution, but I thought I'd add it here for anyone else searching.

Answer 6

Try running as Administrator. For whatever reason it defaults to a mapped drive.