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

Question

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/fi         


        

Answer 1

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