To add another report of a similar problem, of silent skipping and not of filepath quoting, I found this one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31203634/git-clean-filter-python-script-on-windows/52264440#52264440 The user created .gitconfig and added to .git/config: [include] path = .gitconfig Not realizing that the two were not in the same folder. And probably assuming that .git/config was referring to the root of repository, and not relative to .git/, which is a reasonable assumption. Of course he had no way of resolving this as git wasn't telling him where it wasn't finding the file. i.e. Can't find: ~/myrepo/.git/.gitconfig which would have instantly told him where the problem was. -- ________________________________________________ Stas Bekman <'))))>< <'))))>< https://stasosphere.com https://chestofbooks.com https://experientialsexlab.com https://stason.org https://stasosphere.com/experience-life/my-books