I believe that I am missing something obvious.
I am using Windows 8.1 in VMWare Fusion on a Mac OS X host. I have installed Git as a Windows component, and I also installed Git as a Cygwin component.
I was able to use all my usual Git commands on Cygwin within a versioned directory. However, when I tried to push, I was notified that I have not yet associated my e-mail or name (git config --global user.name <name>; git config --global user.email <email address>).
When I ran those commands, I got a permission denied. Afterward, I was unable to issue ANY git command (status; show; pull; fetch; etc...).
I received the following error in Cygwin:
fatal: permission denied opening .git/config
UPDATE: I seemed to have resolved this by deleting my Cygwin C:\cygwin64\home\<user>\.gitconfig file. Any idea what may have been going on?
I believe that there is an issue when a .gitconfig is in the Cygwin home directory and there's a config file in the actual C:\Users\<user>\.git\ folder.
Am I missing something?
I seemed to have resolved this by deleting my Cygwin C:\cygwin64\home\.gitconfig file.