From: Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 12:47:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] send-email: Add sendmail email aliases format
Message-ID: <CAJ80sas_D-6z4MvuFvvjoX7U_bM6b3brCo4rvYFCUfTmKS=6bA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> A small thing I noticed in the test (and this patch is not adding a
>>> new "breakage"---there are a few existing instances) is the use of
>>> "~/"; it should be spelled "$HOME/" instead for portability (not in
>>> POSIX, even though bash, dash and ksh all seem to understand it).
>>
>> Well, I was wrong. Tilde expansion is in POSIX.
>>
>> Nevertheless, I'd prefer if we avoided it.
>
> Alright, $HOME it will be.

Looking closer at this and the other test cases, they are inconsistent
about using ".mailrc", "~/.mailrc", and "$(pwd)/.mailrc".  This would
add another one, "$HOME/.mailrc".

How do you feel about using just ".mailrc", and "$(pwd)/.mailrc" when
an absolute path is needed in gitconfig?