Mac OS X Git Packaging Problem

This is a bug report for the Mac OS X packaging at http://git-scm.com/download/mac . It is not so much a software bug as a nonoptimal configuration setting.

Requested Change Remove the line "excludesfile = ~/.gitignore" under [core] from /usr/local/git/etc/gitconfig

Reasons:

#1 The documentation at http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore says the default global excludes file is at $HOME/.config/git/ignore. The file $HOME/.config/git/ignore is installed, and does indeed have good default content, but because of the setting in /usr/local/git/etc/gitconfig, the file is blocked from being reached.

#2
Seems to me the global excludesFile should never be called .gitignore --
better to be called .gitignore_global -- since the .gitignore name would
prevent a local .gitignore from being included there. I personally don't
have my $HOME directory under git control, but if I did, I might want a
custom .gitignore. And if I did want that, I would be required to set my
global file explicitly in my own ~/.gitconfig:
  git config --global core.excludesFile "~/.gitignore_global"