Hi! > What if you run 'git var -l' outside a repository? From CMD? > Have you tried 'git-var -l' (note the dash)? From CMD? C:\Program Files\Git\bin>git var -l usage: git-var [-l | <variable>] C:\Program Files\Git\bin>git-var -l fatal: Not a git repository C:\Program Files\Git\bin>git --version git version 1.5.3.mingw.1 > Are you sure you have only one version of git in the PATH? Yes. > What's in your .git/config? This is the .git/config file for one of the repositories where it fails: [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = false bare = false logallrefupdates = true symlinks = false pager = less -x3 -r [instaweb] local = true httpd = c:/cygwin/usr/sbin/lighttpd.exe -f port = 4321 browser = c:/progra~1/opera/opera.exe modulepath = c:/cygwin/usr/lib/apache [diff] renames = copies external = C:/Program Files/tkdiff/tkdiff.exe [user] name = Peter Karlsson email = peter.karlsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This is my global $HOME/.gitconfig: [user] name = Peter Karlsson email = peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [core] editor = c:/cygwin/bin/joe.exe pager = less -x3 -r [color] [color] pager = true -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html