brew file init Error

[0xmachos]

OS: macOS 10.5.6
Brew: 2.5.0 (Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 6f4b92; last commit 2020-09-11))
Shell: zsh 5.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.3.0)

When I run brew file init I get the following error:

$ brew file init -y
[ERROR]: Failed at command: git config --get github.user

This used to work for me and I'm not sure when it stopped working.

I have a .gitconfig file which sets user.name. I've not seen github.user widely used before.

[rcmdnk]

Thank you for the report.
There was a bug to stop there.
It should try to get user.name after github.user, too.

Could you please try v8.0.4 (do brew update && brew upgrade && brew file init -y)?
It will correctly try to get user.name after failing to get github.user.

[0xmachos]

v8.0.4 has fixed the issue for me.

Cheers for the quick response and fix.