sweet - thanks so much for your help! On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 4:56 PM Konstantin Khomoutov <kos...@bswap.ru> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 04:43:06PM +0100, stephanie mathias wrote: > > [...] > > >> I think these configs should be stored at ~/.gitconfig. By deleting or > > >> editing the file, you can reset these settings. > [...] > > > Don't remove them. That's the default configuration. > [...] > > thanks guys! just to clarify, do i make a new directory called gitconfig > > and store it in there? > > Well, depends on what you're after. > > The file ~/.gitconfig stores the so-called "global" configuration, which > is per-user (there also exist two other levels: "system" and local to a > particular Git repository). > > So, we hypothesized you have lots of stuff accreted in your global > config. If you want to delete it, simply _move_ the file ~/.gitconfig > somewhere (the easiest it so just rename it), and then see whether your > offending config stuff is gone. > > There is no need to recreate that file: Git will do that automatically > whenever you call `git config` with the "--global" command-line option. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Git for human beings" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
