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git-gui ignores core.excludesFile

From
Lars Noschinski <lars@public.noschinski.de>
Date
Jul 23, 2007, 15:07 UTC
Message-ID
<20070723150700.GA17167@lars.home.noschinski.de>
Hello!

It seems git-gui (0.7.5 from git 1.5.2.4 tarball) ignores the global ignore file configured with the core.excludesfile option. My ~/.gitconfig contains

[core] excludesFile = /home/noschinski/.gitignore

which is honoured by git-status but not by git-gui.
Greetings,
    Lars.
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  1. Lars NoschinskiJul 23, 2007
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