Failed to initialize repository: failed to commit while trying to initialize the branch.

[rceraline]

Hi,

When I try to bootstrap a new repo in Azure DevOps, I get the following error:

failed to initialize repository: failed to commit while trying to initialize the branch. Error: failed to commit. Please make sure your gitconfig contains a name and an email

I keep receiving this error even after the user.name and user.email variables have been set in the gitconfig with the following commands.

git config --global user.name "some name"
git config --global user.email "some email"

What am I missing here?

Thanks,