According to current man pages of git-config there is no = to set the config value.pull/67/head
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ For more information on gitignore: [gitignore(5)][g5] | |||
git has a global configuration that applies rules to all of | |||
your projects. For example: | |||
git config --global core.excludesfile=~/.global_ignore | |||
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.global_ignore | |||
... will apply the rules in ~/.global_ignore for all of your repos. | |||