From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:30:17 GMT
Subject: Re: wishlist: git gui not listing untracked files in unstaged list
Message-ID: <7v3a07q07a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100310221403.GF21994@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 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.

I'd agree.