I spent a few hours working on a new project, I intend to work on this one with a friend, so I thought I would set up a git repository so we can effectively work together. After doing this, the engine crashes leaving the message "Unity is already in list. You cannot locate the same version" for a brief second before flashing to white. It will not open the editor at all.
The steps taken to establish the repository were as follows:
1) make sure settings are the way they need to be in unity
1.5) close unity
2) create new gitlab project
3) git init, add *, commit, remote add origin [project clone ssh], and push -u origin master
4) remove library folder and push again.
5) created a .gitignore file to ignore library and temp going forward