can't disable analytics

[ssreekanth]

Installed linuxbrew on CentOS 6.5 (thanks to #16 fix). However, when I tried to opt out of analytics, it threw the following error -

$ brew analytics off
error: could not lock config file /home/testuser/.linuxbrew/.git/config: No such file or directory
Error: Failure while executing: git config --file=/home/testuser/.linuxbrew/.git/config --replace-all homebrew.analyticsdisabled true

[sjackman]

Try

export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
brew update
brew analytics off

If that doesn't work, try brew install git before brew update.

[ssreekanth]

That worked. Thanks @sjackman!

[sjackman]

No worries! I'll add one in my head to the number of Linuxbrew users reported by analytics. =)

[ssreekanth]

Now that you gave the solution, you would never know how many other users disabled the analytics. ;)