How to recover the . gitconfig file from my home directory?

Andrei Kulik 0
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How can I restore or re-generate a removed ~/.gitconfig file?

I thought about re-install git but as I understood it's not a recommended option for macos.

  • MacOS version - 12.6
  • Git version 2.37.0 (Apple Git-136)
git macos
2 Answers

A .git folder is created in a repo. Unless you are trying to version control your home directory, a .git folder won't be in your home directory.

A user home directory may contain a .gitconfig file for configuration options.

If you made your home directory into a repo and have a copy/clone of the repo elsewhere you can restore from that.

The .git folder and/or .gitconfig file can be restored from Time Machine or another backup solution. They are just folders and files.

If there isn't history of importance you can recreate the repo of your home directory. Likewise if there isn't much config, you can run git config --global ... to recreate the config values.

(Also note that macOS doesn't use /home. User home directories are in /Users.)

Jonathan Dodds0

Did you publish your folder to git services such as GitHub before you removed the git folder? If yes, you can clone that folder from GitHub

Kouros0
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