"Git error: could not lock config file C:/Users/old_profile/.gitconfig: No such file or directory" after profile migration
Solution 1
I faced similar issue.
Error: could not lock config file C:/.gitconfig:
Solution: I had a system environment variable (Home= C:\
) in my computer and it caused this issue. Deleted it and everything started working.
Solution 2
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\<old_profile>
with the new one.
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Jack Ukleja
Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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Jack Ukleja almost 2 years
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 another.
For some git commands I get the error:
error: could not lock config file C:/Users/<my old profile>/.influxdb/.gitconfig: No such file or directory error: could not lock config file C:/Users/<my old profile>/.influxdb/.gitconfig: No such file or directory
Note: This error always comes up twice, for example if I try to do
git config --global diff.tool p4merge
What is interesting is that this folder it's looking for doesn't exist, and if i use
git config -l --show-origin
to see where git is getting it's settings, it makes no mention of this path, and if I look inside anyCONFIG
files I can see no reference to this non-existant path.Where is git storing a reference to this old path? I need to update it as I think this error is stopping some commands working.