On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>> OK, I think I see why you are puzzled.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cloning works fine because we "fix the path" *after* the clone is done
>>>>> successfully, for the following reason:
>>>>
>>>> So if we didn't store a different path, it would work. So instead of
>>>> expanding '~' ourselves, it would be better to don't expand anything,
>>>> and leave it as it is, but how to detect that in fix_path()?
>>>
>>> I think that the patch relies on that os.path.expanduser(), if
>>> url.path is such a path that begins with "~" (or "~whom"), returns
>>> an absolute path. When given an absolute path, or "~whom/path",
>>> fix_path returns without running 'git config' on remote.<alias>.url
>>> configuration.
>>
>> I think ~whom/path would run 'git config'.
>
> Hmph, do you mean the third example of this?
>
> $ python
> >>> import os
> >>> os.path.expanduser("~/repo")
> '/home/junio/repo'
> >>> os.path.expanduser("~junio/repo")
> '/home/junio/repo'
> >>> os.path.expanduser("~felipe/repo")
> '~felipe/repo'
>
> which will give "~felipe/repo" that is _not_ an absolute repository
> because no such user exists on this box?
>
> It is true that in that case fix_path() will not return early and
> will throw a bogus path at "git config", but if the "~whom" does not
> resolve to an existing home directory of a user, I am not sure what
> we can do better than what Antoine's patch does.I was thinking something like this:
if url.scheme != 'file' or os.path.isabs(url.path) or url.path[0] == '~':
return
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>