Error when attempting to use chef commands

Chef Infra (archive)
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After setting up my workstation I added some files to the git-ignore and svn ignore files, but after that, my chef-client stopped working. Tried reinstalling and 'knife ssl fetch' didn't work either. For the 'knife SUB-COMMAND' or any other chef related commands in PowerShell, the output is as such:

ERROR: CONFIGURATION ERROR:knife is an invalid chef_server_url

Did some extra research and was unable to find anyone else who had this issue, has anyone seen this before?

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From the error your config file has an invalid value for chef_server_url.

Double check your configuration in /.chef

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Turns out I had a credentials file elsewhere causing chef to use that instead of the config file.