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. -- 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