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myrepo$ git config --system core.editor "nano -w"
error: could not lock config file /etc/gitconfig: Permission denied
If you are trying to add or edit a system configuration file you will get a Permission denied error because you need special privileges to access it.
Fix:For the above example, it is better to set the core.editor at the user level using the --global configuration.
If you really want to set a property at the system level make use of sudo
sudo git config --system core.editor "nano -w"
Again you should have special privileges to do so, if not you will get sudoers error.
[sudo] password for user1:
user1 is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
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