OLUSAM@DESKTOP-4GMS90R MINGW64 ~ $ git --version fatal: bad config line 1 in file C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig

[Samson0228]

• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ git --version --build-options

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• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ cmd.exe /c ver

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• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

# One of the following:
> type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt

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• Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
  to the issue you're seeing?

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Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

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• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

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• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

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• What actually happened instead?

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• If the problem was occurring with a specific repository, can you provide the
  URL to that repository to help us with testing?

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[rimrul]

Well, the obvious next step is to look at

line 1 in file C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig

to see why git is complaining about that.