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I am using gitbash and git version 2.20.1.windows.1. commit, diff, branch all work fine, but git status (the most basic command, surely?) fails. The error message is like this, where fileA and fileB are the tracked files in my repo:

$ git status
.gitignore: Function not implemented
fileA: Function not implemented
fileB: Function not implemented
fatal: cannot use .git/info/exclude as an exclude file

I can't spot anything strange about .git/info/exclude or .gitignore.

GitHub Desktop shows me the correct status, so that's my workaround for now.

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Jan 2019: Check if this is releated to the recent issue 1989

Disabling the fscache, reverting to 2.19.1 or moving the repo to the local drive fixes the problem.

git config --global core.fscache false

Update July 2020, as noted by Rintze Zelle in the comments:

Updating to a newer version of Git for Windows of >= v2.21.0 should now solve this problem as well.
I no longer experienced this error after updating from git version 2.20.1.windows.1 to git version 2.27.0.windows.1

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yes, I can confirm that moving the repo to the local drive or disabling fscache makes the error messages disappear.
Thank you! This was driving me crazy. Take your well deserved up-vote!
Per github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/…, updating to a newer version of Git for Windows of >= v2.21.0 should now solve this problem as well. I no longer experienced this error after updating from git version 2.20.1.windows.1 to git version 2.27.0.windows.1.
@RintzeZelle THank you for this feedback. I have included your comment in the answer for more visibility.
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FWIW, I'm using git version 2.38.1.windows.1 and still experience this problem. Seems to only happen when I try to run git clean -xf on a directory that contains symlinks (from NPM installation), and when those symlinks can lead to circular references to the same directory

dirA -> dirB -> node_modules -> dirA

Setting

git config --global core.fscache false

did not help.

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