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I've just installed git on a newly imaged laptop with windows 7 and I get this message when I open git shell:

Welcome to Git (version 1.9.4-preview20140611)

Run 'git help git' to display the help index. Run 'git help ' to display help for specific commands. sh.exe": ÿþa: command not found sh.exe": ÿþe: command not found sh.exe": ÿþe: command not found

I also found that no options set in the .profile are set, so tried source .profile and .bashrc but this results in the same error (sh.exe": ÿþe: command not found), anyone else solved this problem?

You should know this is a corporate laptop where my home directory is on a network share so git's home is h:\ instead of C:\Users\\ not sure if this complicates things.

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Convert your files from UTF-16 to a single byte encoding like ASCII. Make sure any editor you use doesn't change it back.

The "ÿþ" characters are the 16-bit little endian version of the Unicode byte order mark.

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Thank you kind sir, worked like a charm. Now I'm not stuck typing ls -lh all the time like some kind of dinosaur!

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