From: Patrick Higgins <patrick133t@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:41 GMT
Subject: Re: wishlist: git gui not listing untracked files in unstaged list
Message-ID: <loom.20100310T225229-469@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100310200728.GD21994@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce <spearce <at> spearce.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> wrote:
> I have no idea why the original poster isn't getting his ignore
> list(s) to work.  I also have no idea why dropping the --others
> flag from the ls-files command gets him a useful result.

I'm seeing a similar problem. For me, it's caused by defining
core.excludesfile to "~/.gitexcludes". The git config documentation
says that this will be expanded to my home directory. It appears that
git gui doesn't do this and instead runs "git ls-files --others -z
--exclude-from='~/.gitexcludes'"

That chokes with:

fatal: cannot use ~/.gitexcludes as an exclude file

Changing core.excludesfile to use a fully-qualified path instead of ~/
fixes the problem for me.