git gui not showing untracked files

Question

For some reason, git gui is not showing any untracked files. This is happening in all repositories on this system.

I understand how .gitignore works, and have confirmed that is not the problem, because the same untracked files show up in git status just fine.

What's broken?

I'm using git-gui version 0.12.0.64.g89d6 on CentOS 6.2.

Answer 1

This appears to be a bug with git-gui.

Whenever I have a global excludesfile specified, and that file exists, git gui seems to ignore everything, while git itself acts as it should.

~/.gitconfig:

[core]
    excludesfile = ~/.gitignore

and an empty ~/.gitignore causes this behavior.