commit 44e24c3642c860a57185562e7fa838fbbe503193
from: Omar Polo <op@xglobe.in>
date: Fri Apr 03 08:58:29 2020 UTC

fixed post

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--- resources/posts/home-as-git-repo.md
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@@ -16,12 +16,33 @@ While the mine is actually two-bytes long due to a new
 me started.  Git will ignore everything (music, documents, logs...)
 except files that you add with `-f`.  So far so good.
 
+---
+
+**edit**: the part that follows is mostly wrong.  The problem I had
+was due to this piece of my global git conifg:
+
+```
+[core]
+	excludesfile = ~/.gitignore
+```
+
+that was making git ignoring every file in my existings repos.
+
+Why I had that thing in the first place?  Well, it's the result of
+migrating to this machine.  I had a global gitignore file in my home
+directory to ignore common files (like emacs backups, acme guide files
+and so on), that I forgot to copy on the new machine.
+
+I've kept the rest of the post because of the `.git/info/exclude` bit
+that I didn't known about.
+
+---
+
 Except that this broke all my git repos.
 
 I have several git repositories in subfolders inside my home, and
 since git goes recursively when searching for `.gitignore`s it will
-ignore EVERY file.  (this shouldn't be a surprise, but I thought
-`.gitignore` were per-repo)
+ignore EVERY file.
 
 Maybe the author has his `~/build` or `~/src` mounted with NFS or
 something else (git should stop at filesystem boundaries AFAIK), but