Why is git ignoring my changed file?

Question

I make an arbitrary change to a file within my git working directory.

git status does not recognized that the file has changed.

git add /path

Answer 1

You check your global git ignore file?

git config --global --get-all core.excludesfile
git config --system --get-all core.excludesfile

If either of those return a file as their value, look in that file.