Git warning "encountered old-style '/home/user/.gitignore' that should be '%(pre-CodePudding

Using git version 2.35.1.windows.2, all Git invocations include this warning at least once:

PS C:\Users\BoppreH\Desktop\source\keyboard> git status
warning: encountered old-style '/home/boppreh/.gitignore' that should be '%(prefix)/home/boppreh/.gitignore'
On branch new_core
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/new_core'.
[...]

Sometimes multiple times:

PS C:\Users\BoppreH\Desktop\source\keyboard> git pull
warning: encountered old-style '/home/boppreh/.gitignore' that should be '%(prefix)/home/boppreh/.gitignore'
warning: encountered old-style '/home/boppreh/.gitignore' that should be '%(prefix)/home/boppreh/.gitignore'
warning: encountered old-style '/home/boppreh/.gitignore' that should be '%(prefix)/home/boppreh/.gitignore'
warning: encountered old-style '/home/boppreh/.gitignore' that should be '%(prefix)/home/boppreh/.gitignore'
warning: encountered old-style '/home/boppreh/.gitignore' that should be '%(prefix)/home/boppreh/.gitignore'
Already up to date.

Which is confusing, because I'm on Windows and there's no .gitignore file in my home folder.

What is causing this warning?

CodePudding user response：

The user configuration file at ~/.gitconfig contained the following entry:

[core]
    excludesfile = /home/boppreh/.gitignore

So the problem is that I assumed the leading slash made the path absolute (it doesn't), and I transferred a .gitconfig file from a Linux machine without the matching .gitignore file.

My solution was to remove the offending line.