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I'm setting up Git and I am following http://lifehacker.com/5983680/how-the-heck-do-i-use-github along with the regular tutorial Git provides.

My problem is I don't want to have to type in my password each time so I am following this tutorial and when I arrive at the step where you input the git config —global credential.helper osxkeychain command, I get the error 

error: key does not contain a section: —global.

If I ls it, it shows the git-credential-osxkeychain in my current directory but I'm not sure what this error means and how to fix it... Any help is much appreciated.

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  • Have you tried the [GitHub guide for ssh passphrases on Mac/OS X](https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-ssh-key-passphrases#mac-osx-keychain) instead? –  Mar 09 '14 at 07:25

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You probably typed '—' (the long dash) instead of the expected double hyphen

 git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

Note the '--' in front of global, instead of '—'

The lifehacker blog posts incrrectly replace the '--' by '—'.

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