# Elixir Blog Posts

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-blog-posts/150>\
**Category:** Blog Posts\
**Tags:** blog-posts, wiki, stickies, official-blog-posts-thread\
**Created:** [April 30, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-blog-posts/150 "2017-04-30T23:00:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-blog-posts/150/488 "2019-05-22T14:26:39Z")

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Hmm, it wasn’t on any of my systems… Let me check the help file. ^.^;

> core.excludesfile
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> In addition to _.gitignore_ (per-directory) and _.git/info/exclude_ , Git looks into this file for patterns of files which are not meant to be tracked. “~/” is expanded to the value of $HOME and “~user/” to the specified user’s home directory. Its default value is $XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. See **gitignore** (5).

Ooo, I’m very sure it used to not have a default, but now apparently the default is `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore` falling back to `$HOME/.config/git/ignore`. 🙂

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