Re: Git config not expanding user home directories

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 1, 2008, 03:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20081001032246.GB24513@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <m33ajhsw24.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:38:46AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> There was a patch send to git mailing list adding basic '~' support
> (I think via $ENV{HOME}), and IIRC even ~user support. I don't know
> what happened to those patches (check mailing list archive), but
> most probably it was not accepted because it didn't provide a way
> for scripts to use this functionality, for example via --path option.

There were several rounds, and I thought it was shaping up, but then no more rounds came. I assume that Karl lost interest (or perhaps we nitpicked him to death), but I thought at the end of the thread Junio laid out a plan for the next revision. I guess nobody cared enough about the feature to implement it after that (though I think I found the final version acceptable with a minor documentation tweak, I think Junio laid out a cleaner approach).

The last patch is here, with one of the replies from Junio giving the aforementioned plan:

  http://mid.gmane.org/quack.20080829T0229.lthhc94rwyr_-_@roar.cs.berkeley.edu

-Peff