Re: wishlist: git gui not listing untracked files in unstaged list

> 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.