title: "Cannot read git config" when configuring Git default remote and merge
body: <p>I´m using EGit with eclipse to sync my dev environment to two different computer. I have a slight problem with the one where I originally created by project and pushed it to my remote git repo (which happens to be github). </p>
  
  <p>Now I searched the web and found some pointers indicating that I have to add to key/value pairs myself to the config file. The keys are branch.master.merge and branch.master.remote</p>
  
  <p>My config now looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[core]
  repositoryformatversion = 0
  filemode = false
  logallrefupdates = true
  autocrlf = false
  [remote "origin"]
  url = https://dan-lind@github.com/dan-lind/prime-sweet.git
  fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The info I found was to add the follwing lines:</p>
  
  <pre><code>branch.master.merge = refs/heads/master
  branch.master.remote = origin
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Question: Where am I supposed to put them? I tried putting them both under the core and under the remote sections, but as soon as I fire up Eclipse I get an error message saying that the git config file cannot be read. If I remove the two lines again, everything is fine (except that I still have no defaults and cannot use pull)</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?
  Cheers!</p>