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I'm syncing ~/.gitconfig and ~/.gitignore files in ubuntu and Mac by using dropbox and created symlink for it.
And excludesfile is declared like this.
[core]
editor = /usr/bin/vim
excludesfile = /Users/username/.gitignore
The problem is home directory differs by os, therefore I need multiple setting for excludesfile.
Is it possible to define multiple core.excludesfile?
You can only have a single core.excludesfile; the last setting is the one that's used. However, you don't need multiple files: git supports ~ as an abbreviation for your home directory.
[core]
excludesfile = ~/.gitignore
In general, if you really needed to have multiple excludes files, the simplest solution would be to generate a single file that's the concatenation of the others, and update it whenever one of the files changes.
.gitconfig is actually under version control by git. Unfortunately, git expands ~ to be the full path to $HOME and updates the .gitconfig itself with the absolute path. That behavior is fine, but then it shows up as an unstaged change, so I use git update-index --assume-unchanged .gitconfig to ignore the expansion (along with the rest of the file).
~ to be expanded? I get: git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitignore'; git config --global core.excludesfile → ~/.gitignore (git 1.7.9.5)
Oct 8, 2014 at 17:22
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore then what is actually run is git config --global core.excludesfile /path/to/home/.gitignore.
Sep 23, 2016 at 3:07