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Re: bug when combined with etckeeper

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 10, 2018, 14:33 UTC
Message-ID
<20181010143333.GA3854@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<4d7cddf8-34b3-eaa4-dc9e-e190062e6135@autistici.org>
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:33:00AM +0000, Naja Melan wrote:
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> I ran into a strange bug. In the following script the commit at the end will fail with: 
> 
> > The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
> > .etckeeper
> > Use -f if you really want to add them.
> 
> Note that there is no .gitignore file and no `.etckeeper` file in the
> repository, there is nothing in .git/exclude.

That's weird. Do you have any git-related environment variables set? Or anything in your config that might be pointing git to an alternate repository or working tree?

Try:
  env | grep GIT
and:
  git config --list --show-origin
-Peff
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