From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:14:03 GMT
Subject: Re: wishlist: git gui not listing untracked files in unstaged list
Message-ID: <20100310221403.GF21994@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100310221228.GA4223@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> This is an inconsistency in the way that tilde-expansion is handled. The
> core.excludesfile config variable is expanded internally with the
> "pathname" magic (git_config_pathname). But handing the filename
> directly to ls-files --exclude-from does not do that expansion.
> 
> So either there is a bug in ls-files, which should expand from the
> command line, or one in git-gui, which should be using "git config
> --path core.excludesfile" to get the path.

I'd say its git-gui, yes?  Doesn't my shell automatically do
--exclude-from=~/my.list for me?  Its not the command's job
to do that expansion.

-- 
Shawn.