I have specify an excludesfile in my ~/.gitconfig: [core] excludesfile = /Users/fynn/.gitexcludes This works fine for my OS X workstation. But when I sync this .gitconfig to our Linux server, the excludesfile is ignored because my home directory there is /home/fynn. Is there a way to specify that in a portable way? I tried both ~/.gitexcludes and $HOME/.gitexcludes; neither worked on any platform. git version on both platforms is 1.6.4 Thanks, Fynn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html