`stow */` symlinks everything, including contents of .git file

[pszponder]

I'm hoping someone familiar with stow can help me out. I am trying to replicate a dotfile repo using stow. But I noticed that the contents of the .git directory within the repo are also being symlinked to my $HOME directory.

I do have a .stow-local-ignore file with \.git in it but even so, the .git contents are being symlinked.

This is making me think that stow isn't picking up on the ignore file.

Any ideas how to fix this?