From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:49:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Git config not expanding user home directories
Message-ID: <48E2043A.4000501@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <F90667E7-6B06-4B34-B655-3C42ED236D9A@netspot.com.au>

Tom Lanyon wrote:
> 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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