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El_Loco
El_Loco

Reputation: 1866

git and visual studio

When I try to update my information under git settings in Visual Studio 2013, I get the following error:

 An error occurred. Detailed message: An error was raised by libgit2. 
 Category = Config (Error).
 Multivar incompatible with simple set

There are others who have problems with libgit2, but not related to config. Any ideas?

/ Erik

Upvotes: 4

Views: 784

Answers (1)

tonjo
tonjo

Reputation: 1430

Same error but with Visual Studio 2015. I used git bash with this command:

git config --global -l

which showed me I had 2 user.email addresses set. That is likely the meaning of "multivar". After that, I entered:

git config --global -e

which opened an editor, from whom I could remove the unwanted (duplicated in my case) line. No more errors in Visual Studio. If you don't have git bash, simply edit the file ~/.gitconfig file.

I'm into the Linux world, so I feel much more comfortable with bash, that also offers more options.

Upvotes: 5

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