git status is giving “Function not implemented” and “fatal: cannot use .git/info/exclude as an exclude file”

Question

I am using gitbash and git version 2.20.1.windows.1. commit, diff, branch all work fine, but git status (the most basic c

Answer 1

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