Re: wishlist: git gui not listing untracked files in unstaged list

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:00:41PM +0000, Patrick Higgins wrote:

Shawn O. Pearce <spearce <at> spearce.org> writes:

quoted

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.

This is an inconsistency in the way that tilde-expansion is handled. The
core.excludesfile config variable is expanded internally with the
"pathname" magic (git_config_pathname). But handing the filename
directly to ls-files --exclude-from does not do that expansion.

So either there is a bug in ls-files, which should expand from the
command line, or one in git-gui, which should be using "git config
--path core.excludesfile" to get the path.

-Peff