Trouble setting up git with my GitHub Account error could not lock config file

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I m getting this error when trying to set the global config     git config --global user name  Your Name Here  error  could not lock config file  pathto file  gitconfig  No such file or directory   and the file  gitconfig is already exists  anyone have any ideas

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In my case  the  git config file was created not in my  HOME directory  but inside my repository on  git config lock  Deleting the file fixed the problem  The file is created  when I switch branches with git checkout -f branchname and files from a recently created submodule were overwritten by git checkout     git branch --set-upstream-to origin branchname error  could not lock config file  git config  File exists error  Unable to write upstream branch configuration hint   hint  After fixing the error cause you may try to fix up hint  the remote tracking information by invoking hint   git branch --set-upstream-to origin branchname

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This will happen  if the user home directory is not writable by the user  git config --global needs to create a  lock  file     gitconfig lock  in user home directory   Check the permissions and try to create one     cat    gitconfig lock cat   home users developer  gitconfig lock  No such file or directory   touch    gitconfig lock     Now check  if a file has been created    cat    gitconfig lock     NOTE  If it succeeds  You must delete this file  otherwise git will throw another error   If a user has no permission of creating this file  You must check and change permissions for the home directory

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just do Run as Administrator       you need to run the program in the run as administrator mode in windows

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A bit like in  Trouble setting up Tower with my GitHub Account - error  could not lock config file   check how that    gitconfig file has been created  Ie  with which rights associated to it   Make also sure your  HOME variable is correctly set when you are executing the git config --global command

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I rename the  gitconfig file as xyz gitconfig  then git will generate a new  gitconfig file  that wokrd

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You can also try issuing the command while in your home directory

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This could be caused by the presence of    gitconfig lock  It s possible this file could be an artifact of a previously running git that was aborted for some reason  e g  ansible timed out or  C

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I have  experienced  this error on Windows because my name  and hence  HOMEPATH   contains a non ascii character       Either git or cmd exe or anything else could not cope with this

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This is an old post  but I had this issue recently  but I solved the issue differently from everyone else here  I received the same error because I did not have permission to the  HOME path on my computer  Simply by accessing the folder via double-clicking through the folders in your files  I was prompted with boxes saying that I would gain permanent access to these folders after entering through them for the first time  After I accessed the deepest folder in my  HOME variable  the command worked

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I started getting this error after windows upgrade  My Home variable somehow removed after windows upgrade  Issue resolved by adding HOME variable as  C  Users myusername

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In Windows  Right click on  Git Bash  icon -  Run as Administrator  it helped me   Git tries to create a config file on disk C   but it has no permission to do that

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For me  the problem was not git config  but  git directory at my current repo was created by root and I was trying to do something with my other user  I changed the perm

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So I know this thread is Old  but I had the same issue and fixed it  Hopefully this works for someone else   When i tried using  sudo  or anything in powershell cmd it was an unrecognized command  So i reinstalled git for windows  during the install it failed and pointed me to C  ProgramFiles git etc gitconfig  I deleted that file  and reinstalled  Same Error when saving credentials  So i moved the newly created gitconfig from programfiles  to my HomePath location C  Users Name  Now I can save credentials under file-- Options-- git  Finally  I can commit push on githubdesktop

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I am old to the party but may be this will help some one  Thanks to  paperclip   In Windows 10    Step 1  Go to  This PC   Right click Properties   step 2  Click Advanced System Settings and click Environment Variables   Step 3  Under System Variables create new variable called HOME and input the value as  USERPROFILE  like below      Step 4  Important  You must restart your PC to take effect   Step 5  Install Git for Windows now and optional Tortoise Git for windows if you prefer    Make a git clone request or try pushing something in to your repo  Magic it will work  All should work fine now

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Windows Users  Ensure your Environment Variables are correctly setup    I had the following for my account username  paperclip    My Computer  right-click   gt  Properties  gt  Advanced  tab   gt  Environment Variables  under System Variables    HOME - gt   HOMEPATH   HOMEPATH - gt  C  Documents and Settings paperclip  It seems like Git could not resolve   expand  HOME  to  HOMEPATH  as you would it expect it to  Instead I needed to make  HOME  the same as  HOMEPATH  by changing it to   HOME - gt  C  Documents and Settings paperclip

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Check if you have a  git directory in your home folder and if you don t   mkdir    git  Solved the problem in my case

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Update you Git client plugin  It worked for me    https   issues jenkins-ci org browse JENKINS-21016

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Just use the following command if you wanna set configuration in system level     sudo git config --system user name  my name

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I ve gotten this error when a lock file exists for gitconfig   Try and find and remove  gitconfig lock  on my linux box it was in my home dir

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