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I follow the help on http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/ for installing git (msysgit) on windows 7 x64.

Everything went good until setting up my account.

But as soon as I tried git config --global user.name ...... the git bash always shows me the usage of git, in short the help. Every command (status, --version, diff, help, status, ...) shows the same message : usage: git [--version] [--exec-path.......] ....

ssh is working well because I could param the ssh key. if I type "sit" with a mistake in git : command not found

thanks for your help. I think that I may have missed an option in the installation.

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  • Can you paste whats in ~/.gitconfig? Commented Apr 26, 2012 at 19:41
  • [core] symlinks = false autocrlf = true [color] diff = auto status = auto branch = auto interactive = true [pack] packSizeLimit = 2g help center format = html [http] sslCAinfo = /bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt [sendemail] smtpserver = /bin/msmtp.exe [diff "astextplain"] textconv = astextplain [rebase] autosquash = true Commented Apr 27, 2012 at 11:30
  • The entries from git config ... go into ~/.gitconfig, since you dont have this, I'm assuming things are not configured properly. Can you download git extensions and that gives you a sort of ui option of configuring things? Commented Apr 30, 2012 at 14:46

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I follow the help for installing git (msysgit) on windows 7 x64.

You shouldnt be installing msysgit unless you are developing Git.

You should be installing Git for Windows.

code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?q=windows+installer

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