Re: [PATCH] Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template

> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:34:26AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>>> Maybe:
>>> 
>>>   A leading path component of "~user" is expanded to the home directory
>>>   of "user"; "~" is expanded to the home directory of the user running
>>>   git.
>>> 
>>> would be more clear?
>>
>> Add "real" before "user running git" and you have my vote. Or maybe
>> using the effective user would be better, and the patch should use
>> geteuid() instead of getuid(), I don't know. ident.c uses getuid(), but
>> I'm wondering if that's what it should use (although it doesn't seem to
>> have been a problem to anyone)
>
> "~" should just expand to the value of $HOME, like in the shell,
> independent of the real home directory of the real or effective user.