From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:11:51 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2010, #02; Wed, 11)
Message-ID: <AANLkTimcb92zD-bcguV65qnhLN+oCaJRi7SZq1GFw4hd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=MenKX7Eh5PTpjfiYirrgLBCamWgorA35rx-Fy@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 09:37, Greg Brockman <gdb@mit.edu> wrote:
>>> * gb/shell-ext (2010-07-28) 3 commits
>>>  - Add sample commands for git-shell
>>>  - Add interactive mode to git-shell for user-friendliness
>>>  - Allow creation of arbitrary git-shell commands
>>
>> This needs work on Windows because we do not have geteuid(), perhaps just
>> a compiler flag -Dgeteuid=getuid
> I had a submitted a revised patch that just uses HOME, see
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/152050/focus=152135.
>  I guess that didn't make it in yet.

Maybe that should be (untested):

    char* home = expand_user_path("~");

To avoid duplicating the getenv("HOME") code (e.g. if someone wants to
make a getpwuid fallback in the future).