Git ignoring gitconfig?

Question

It appears Git is ignoring ~/.gitconfig

$ git config --global core.filemode false

$ git config -l
core.filemode=false
core.filemode=true

So now there are 2 entries for core.filemode and git is still not ignoring filemode changes

$ touch modetest

$ git add .

$ git commit -m test1
[master (root-commit) 320cfe4] test1
 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 modetest

$ chmod +x modetest

$ git diff
diff --git a/modetest b/modetest
old mode 100644
new mode 100755

Based on torek’s answer, I added this line to my .bash_profile

[ -d .git ] && git config core.filemode false

Answer 1

When creating or reinitializing a new repo, git init always sets a new value for core.filemode based on the result of probing the file system. You'll just have to manually:

git config core.filemode false

Or:

git config --unset core.filemode

to make it respect the one in your ~/.gitconfig. If you run git init again the per-repo setting will go back to true on your system.