From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:36:50 GMT
Subject: Re: wishlist: git gui not listing untracked files in unstaged list
Message-ID: <20100310223650.GA4710@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100310223210.GC4223@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 05:32:10PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> It depends on the shell. Bash will expand it in _some_ cases (but not
> this one). Dash never will:
> 
>   $ echo $BASH_VERSION
>   4.1.0(1)-release
>   $ echo foo=~/foo ;# expands
>   foo=/home/peff/foo
>   $ echo --foo=~/foo ;# does not
>   --foo=~/foo
>   $ dash -c 'echo foo=~/foo' ;# does not
>   foo=~/foo
> 
> That being said, my gut feeling is for git-gui to fix it, too. Shell
> callers can use $HOME if they want.

By the way, the only reason I hesitated on that in the first mail is
that it feels a little unelegant. If a config variable grows --path
semantics, _all_ script callers have to be updated. It might be nice to
have "git config --dwim core.excludesfile" which does the "normal"
expansion. But that would mean a central DWIM-list, and git config is
sprinkled throughout the codebase, so it's probably not worth the
refactoring effort.

-Peff