Visual Studio Code: Error: Git Failed to execute

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I installed VS Code (version: 1.12.1) and after that I installed Git (version: 2.13.0.windows.1) on Windows 10 machine. Then:

  1. I created an Asp.Net project (img 1)

  2. I open it in VS Code, went to Source Control and clicked Initialize Repository (img 2)

  3. I tried to commit changes (img 3).

  4. And I saw this error message (img 4).
  5. Then I made sure that git was the provider (img 5)
  6. I went to the settings.json and override the git Path (img 6), by default it was set to null. But it doesn't solve the problem. I created another app from scratch and the same error message is shown.

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Here is the Git Log Output:

Using git 2.13.0.windows.1 from C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe
git rev-parse --show-toplevel
git rev-parse --show-toplevel
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

git rev-parse --show-toplevel
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

git init
git rev-parse --show-toplevel
git status -z -u
git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
git rev-parse master
fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

git for-each-ref --format %(refname) %(objectname)
git remote --verbose
git show :../../AppData/Roaming/Code/User/settings.json
git status -z -u
git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
git rev-parse master
fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

git for-each-ref --format %(refname) %(objectname)
git remote --verbose
git show :../../AppData/Roaming/Code/User/settings.json
git add -A -- .
git commit --quiet --allow-empty-message --file - --all

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'COMPAQ@PREPARA12.(none)')

git config --get-all user.name
git show :../../AppData/Roaming/Code/User/settings.json
git status -z -u
git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
git rev-parse master
fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

git for-each-ref --format %(refname) %(objectname)
git remote --verbose
git show :../../AppData/Roaming/Code/User/settings.json
git commit --quiet --allow-empty-message --file -

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'COMPAQ@PREPARA12.(none)')

git config --get-all user.name
git show :../../AppData/Roaming/Code/User/settings.json
git status -z -u
git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
git rev-parse master
fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

git for-each-ref --format %(refname) %(objectname)
git remote --verbose
git show :../../AppData/Roaming/Code/User/settings.json
git fetch
fatal: No remote repository specified.  Please, specify either a URL or a
remote name from which new revisions should be fetched.

git fetch
fatal: No remote repository specified.  Please, specify either a URL or a
remote name from which new revisions should be fetched.

git fetch
fatal: No remote repository specified.  Please, specify either a URL or a
remote name from which new revisions should be fetched.

git fetch
fatal: No remote repository specified.  Please, specify either a URL or a
remote name from which new revisions should be fetched.

git fetch
fatal: No remote repository specified.  Please, specify either a URL or a
remote name from which new revisions should be fetched.

git commit --quiet --allow-empty-message --file -

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'COMPAQ@PREPARA12.(none)')

git config --get-all user.name
git status -z -u
git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
git rev-parse master
fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

git for-each-ref --format %(refname) %(objectname)
git remote --verbose
1 Answers

From above comments:

Read the log outputs from Git. Configure your user email and user name. One way to do that is to open command prompt. Then navigate to your folder using cd FILEPATH. Then configure your user email and user name. It can be configured globally or only within the current repo. Configure globally with

git config --global user.email "youremailaddress@example.com"

then

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
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