"git init" failed, what's wrong?

This issue is not same as "Bad git config file .git/config", since it failed when using git init.

It seems there is nothing wrong with /home/mirror/.gitconfig:

[mirror@home php]$ git init
error: Malformed value for push.default: simple
error: Must be one of nothing, matching, tracking or current.
fatal: bad config file line 8 in /home/mirror/.gitconfig

This is the content of ~/.gitignore:

cat ~/.gitconfig
[alias]
        lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative
[user]
        email = xxxxxx@gmail.com
        name = xxxxx
[push]
        default = simple

git google-code git-config

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This problem keeps coming up now that git 1.8 is out. Luckily the message from git is now very helpful:

warning: push.default is unset; its implicit value is changing in
Git 2.0 from 'matching' to 'simple'. To squelch this message
and maintain the current behavior after the default changes, use:

   git config --global push.default matching

To squelch this message and adopt the new behavior now, use:

   git config --global push.default simple

See 'git help config' and search for 'push.default' for further information.
(the 'simple' mode was introduced in Git 1.7.11. Use the similar mode
'current' instead of 'simple' if you sometimes use older versions of Git)

For example, emacs interface to git (vc) does not understand the argument 'simple', so you are better off using the argument 'matching' for the time being.

answered 2013-01-15T09:53:46.187

"git init" failed, what's wrong?

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