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.
>
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