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Re: Git config not expanding user home directories

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Sep 30, 2008, 10:49 UTC
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Tom Lanyon wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> Is it normal behavior that git (well at least git-svn) won't expand 
> ~user from .gitconfig?
>

Yes. You could add a patch for that though. git-daemon does ~user expansion since quite a long time back, so there's a function ready for it. I'd do it by doing something like:

   git config --path section.key

so that scripts can get the user-expanded version as well. In-core applications can call expand_path() or some such on their own, I think.

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