From: Robert Crews <rcrews@hortonworks.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:08:24 GMT
Subject: Mac OS X Git Packaging Problem
Message-ID: <7a7427c556404e7ba18ca3f3abea42f5@MBX080-W6-CO-2.EXCH080.SERVERPOD.NET>

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"