From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:41:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mingw: handle absolute paths in expand_user_path()
Message-ID: <20181107204142.GA30078@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <efd57458-07f6-2813-483b-dc7fba785dc0@kdbg.org>

On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 07:52:28PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> > Okay, now we know everything you find wrong with the current patch. Do you
> > have any suggestion how to make it right? I.e. what would you suggest as a
> > way to specify in a gitconfig in a portable Git where the certificate
> > bundle is?
> 
> Ah, so your actual problem is quite a different one!
> 
> Do I understand correctly, that you use a leading slash as an indicator to
> construct a path relative to system_path(). How about a "reserved" user
> name? For example,
> 
>   [http] sslcert = ~system_path/what/ever
> 
> although a more unique name, perhaps with some punctuation, may be
> desirable.

It's syntactically a bit further afield, but something like:

  [http]
  sslcert = $RUNTIME_PREFIX/what/ever

would make sense to me, and is a bit less subtle than the fake user. I
don't know if that would confuse people into thinking that we
interpolate arbitrary environment variables, though.

-Peff