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gui gui and global.excludesfile config

Subject: gui gui and global.excludesfile config

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Seth Falcon· Mar 26, 2008, 14:59 UTC · lore

Hi,

I tried adding a global exclude file by adding this to my ~/.gitconfig:

[core]
	excludesfile = ~/.gitignore

The presense of this option seems to cause git gui to ignore _all_ untracked files. For example, if ~/.gitignore is empty (or contains a bogus ignore like foo), then git gui doesn't show any untracked files.

I'm seeing this on OS X with git version 1.5.5.rc1

+ seth

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