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Git commands fail due to "bad config line"

  • September 30, 2019
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  • Anonymous

I get the following errors trying to use Git on z/OS. I’m not sure what’s causing them. It almost seems like maybe an encoding issue like git can’t read the file in UTF-8? I could be completely off base though.

$git init
warning: templates not found C
fatal: bad config line 1 in file /u/users/xxx/git/test/.git/config

$git config --global --user.name xxxx
fatal: bad config line 1 in file .git/config

$git --version
git version 2.12.0
$bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.50(49)-release (i370-ibm-openedition)

These happen even if I delete ~/.git and the .git directory where I am trying to git init

Anyone seen something like this before and have any suggestions?

Thanks
-Chris

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    Alexander Klochkov
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    I get the following errors trying to use Git on z/OS. I’m not sure what’s causing them. It almost seems like maybe an encoding issue like git can’t read the file in UTF-8? I could be completely off base though.

    $git init
    warning: templates not found C
    fatal: bad config line 1 in file /u/users/xxx/git/test/.git/config

    $git config --global --user.name xxxx
    fatal: bad config line 1 in file .git/config

    $git --version
    git version 2.12.0
    $bash --version
    GNU bash, version 4.2.50(49)-release (i370-ibm-openedition)

    These happen even if I delete ~/.git and the .git directory where I am trying to git init

    Anyone seen something like this before and have any suggestions?

    Thanks
    -Chris

    Hi cboehm91,

    git version 2.14.4 is available for download on customer portal.
    Can you try it?

    Thanks,
    Alex

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    • Anonymous
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    • October 4, 2019

    Hi cboehm91,

    git version 2.14.4 is available for download on customer portal.
    Can you try it?

    Thanks,
    Alex

    Thanks, we will try installing the new version

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    • Anonymous
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    • June 11, 2020

    I get the following errors trying to use Git on z/OS. I’m not sure what’s causing them. It almost seems like maybe an encoding issue like git can’t read the file in UTF-8? I could be completely off base though.

    $git init
    warning: templates not found C
    fatal: bad config line 1 in file /u/users/xxx/git/test/.git/config

    $git config --global --user.name xxxx
    fatal: bad config line 1 in file .git/config

    $git --version
    git version 2.12.0
    $bash --version
    GNU bash, version 4.2.50(49)-release (i370-ibm-openedition)

    These happen even if I delete ~/.git and the .git directory where I am trying to git init

    Anyone seen something like this before and have any suggestions?

    Thanks
    -Chris

    After some troubleshooting, it seems that for some reason the issue was my home directory which is an NFS type file system. So it was seemingly creating ~/.gitconfig in UTF-8 for some reason we didn’t figure out.

    I changed to a different directory and even with an older version of Git, I was able to init, clone, and do other actions that didn’t require access to user-level config. Commenting for anyone else who ends up with the same problem.


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