“Git error: could not lock config file C:/Users/old_profile/.gitconfig: No such file or directory” after profile migration

Question

I have an interesting error that keeps coming up when using git for windows (version 2.12.0.windows.1). I recently migrated my windows profile directory from one location to

Answer 1

This was being caused by bad paths in my environment variables (due to the profile migration).

I opened up System Properties -> Environment Variables, and updated all references to C:\Users\ with the new one.