According to current man pages of git-config there is no = to set
the config value.

This is common amongst ruby projects in eclipse.

For example, ignoring log/* doesn't just ignore all log files, but also files such as lib/project/log/awesome_logger.rb.  It's a mistake I've made a couple of times but never seemed to have learned from.

(https://github.com/lsegal/yard)

Should be in Global/TextMate.gitignore