From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 19:49:05 GMT
Subject: Re: ~ and ^
Message-ID: <20070513154905.36da94e1.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20070513191350.GB14657@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:13:50 +0200
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:

> It seems that ~foo is only expanded to foo's home if there is such a
> user. Since all-numeric users probably aren't common, we can probably
> get away with it.

Someone just mentioned to me that ~# is expanded by Bash if you use the
pushd command to keep a directory stack.   So ~1 will stop working
if you use "pushd".   Maybe it'd be more confusing than helpful.  On the
other hand, there's probably no reason for Git to just give an error
message if it receives a properly escaped lone "~", "~#", or "^".

Sean