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You must define:

• environment variable %HOME%
• put a _netrc file in %HOME%

If you are using Windows 7

run the cmd type this:

setx HOME %USERPROFILE%

and the %HOME% will be set to 'C:\Users\"username"'

then go to it and make a file called '_netrc'

Note: for Windows, you need a '_netrc' file, not a '.netrc'.

Its content is quite standard (Replace the with your values):

machine <hostname1>
login <login1>
password <password1>
machine <hostname2>
login <login2>
password <password2>

Luke mentions in the comments:

Using the latest version of msysgit on Windows 7, I did not need to set the HOME environment variable. The _netrc file alone did the trick.

This is indeed what I mentioned in "Trying to "install" github, .ssh dir not there":
git-cmd.bat included in msysgit does set the %HOME% environment variable:

@if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
@if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%USERPROFILE%

爱国者 believes in the comments that "it seems that it won't work for http protocol"

However, I answered that netrc is used by curl, and works for http protocol, as shown in this example (look for 'netrc' in the page): . Also used with http protocol here: "_netrc/.netrc alternative to cURL".