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Re: [PATCH] Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Nov 17, 2009, 08:56 UTC
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<20091117085603.GB4928@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:53:52AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> Yes. "user" in the sentence is either the user running Git or the same
> string as "user" in "~user". I'm not against your proposal, but I'm
> afraid we're making the sentence uselessly heavy, since, as you say,
> this ~ and ~user convention is widely spread, and I hardly imagine
> someone interpreting the sentence as "if you say ~foo, it will expand
> to the home directory of bar".

I didn't think it would expand ~foo to the home directory of bar. I thought that it might _only_ accept ~bar, and not ~foo.

If I'm the only one confused, then we can drop it. But if not, I don't think it is much more work to be precise.

-Peff
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Message 17 of 24 in “Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template”
  1. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.templateMatthieu Moy, Nov 16, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2009
  4. Matthieu MoyNov 17, 2009
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 16, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2009
  7. Matthieu MoyNov 17, 2009
  8. Jakub NarebskiNov 17, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiNov 17, 2009
  10. Jeff KingNov 17, 2009
  11. Mike HommeyNov 17, 2009
  12. Andreas SchwabNov 17, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2009
  14. Andreas SchwabNov 18, 2009
  15. Matthieu MoyNov 18, 2009
  16. Matthieu MoyNov 17, 2009
  17. Jeff KingNov 17, 2009
  18. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.templateMatthieu Moy, Nov 17, 2009
  19. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.templateMatthieu Moy, Nov 18, 2009
  20. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.templateMatthieu Moy, Nov 18, 2009
  21. expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir.Matthieu Moy, Nov 19, 2009
  22. Jeff KingNov 19, 2009
  23. Matthieu MoyNov 19, 2009
  24. Junio C HamanoNov 19, 2009

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