From b4f4dd1197c69385cebf5bb1e9943a05cd7fe7ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Schulz <jasc@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:35:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add more info how to set global gitignore

---
 bin/git-ignore | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/git-ignore b/bin/git-ignore
index f710bedd7..85bd5e417 100755
--- a/bin/git-ignore
+++ b/bin/git-ignore
@@ -14,7 +14,15 @@ function show_global {
 }
 
 function add_global {
-  add_patterns `git config --global core.excludesfile` "$@"
+  local global_gitignore=$(git config --global core.excludesfile)
+  if [ -z "$global_gitignore" ]; then
+    echo "Can't find global .gitignore."
+    echo ""
+    echo "Use 'git config --global --add core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore-global' to set the path to your global gitignore file to '~/.gitignore-global'."
+    echo ""
+  else
+    add_patterns `git config --global core.excludesfile` "$@"
+  fi
 }
 
 function show_local {