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fatal: cannot use ~/.gitignore_global as an exclude file

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Description

After a recent update, when I look at my repository, I get a popup that says fatal: cannot use ~/.gitignore_global as an exclude file (except with the full path). Sometimes it pops up twice. After I dismiss it, The application does not show pending changes in the “changes” view.

Version

GitHub Desktop version: 1.0.11

OS version: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

Steps to Reproduce

This happened automatically as soon as I switched to the Github Desktop application.

Expected behavior: I expected it to respect the setting in my .gitignore_global file

Actual behavior: I got a popup saying it couldn’t use that file.

Reproduces how often: 100%

Logs

Additional Information

This was working in the previous version (unknown what that number was, sorry.) It did ignore the things I had listed to ignore in ~/.gitignore_global.

My .gitconfig contains this line: excludesfile = ~/.gitignore_global My .gitconfig and .gitignore_global both have LF line endings. My .gitconfig and .gitignore_global are both NTFS symlinks to another directory.

Command line git does not have this error when run (using the command from the logs.)

$ git status --untracked-files=all --branch --porcelain=2 -z
# branch.oid 86bf7aa1aa287a76555746d7e0d72e14f08ac981# branch.head master

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:12 (6 by maintainers)

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karnavpargicommented, Jan 30, 2018

i just used this git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore and after that this error occurs fatal: cannot use /Users/indianic/ as an exclude file please help some one what i do to get old core.excludesfile file

Thank you in advance

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shiftkeycommented, Jan 30, 2018

@karnavkumar please open a new issue with details about your setup

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