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github desktop not obeying gitignore_global

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Description

Both GitHub Desktop and GitHub Desktop Beta are not obeying the exclusions from .gitignore_global

Version

GitHub Desktop: 223
GitHub Desktop Beta: 1.1.1
Operating system: OSX 10.13.4

Steps to Reproduce

If you create this file and associate it via git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global, then add exclusions, and check to see if exclusions are obeyed, they are not.

Expected Behavior

Exclusions from global file should be obeyed

Actual Behavior

They are not

Additional Information

I made sure both my system git and git in the Application resource were configured.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:14 (10 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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thehesiodcommented, May 3, 2018

the rule only lights up when the path starts with a matching rule

ahh, that explains it, totally my fault then, sorry for the waste of time. I think I was confused because pycharm lists it separately in untracked files so I was ignoring them.

yay, this helps me alot as those folders for me had tons of files 😃

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shiftkeycommented, Apr 19, 2018

@thehesiod thanks for the report. I think there’s enough in here to see if we can reproduce the behaviour on our end.

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