# gui gui and global.excludesfile config

1 messages from 2008-03-26 to 2008-03-26. Participants: Seth Falcon.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12874

## Seth Falcon, 2008-03-26 14:59

Subject: gui gui and global.excludesfile config
Message-ID: <18410.25825.457498.244378@ziti.evri.corp>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/18410.25825.457498.244378%40ziti.evri.corp

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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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Seth Falcon

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