fatal: unable to access 'H:\/.config/git/config': Invalid argument [Git on Windows 7]

Question

I get this error when opening a git repository:

fatal: unable to access \'H:/.config/git/config\': Invalid argument

Where in git is this path being pulled from?<

Answer 1

My situation was that I ran git checkout and I had fatal: unable to access 'H://.gitconfig': Invalid argument. Then I run set HOME and had no results. The following steps solved the issue

1. ^{_{change SSH keys}}
2. ^{_{restart the computer}}
3. find .gitconfig (should be in the root of H:// or whatever drive name you have)
4. open it with Notepad++ (or other editor) and save as is. If it is empty, then save empty one
5. then git checkout master started working

If it happned once again, I would start from step 3 :-)