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Git config not expanding user home directories

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TLTom Lanyon <tom@netspot.com.au>
Date
Sep 30, 2008, 10:46 UTC
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Hi all,

Is it normal behavior that git (well at least git-svn) won't expand ~user from .gitconfig?

I was trying to set the svn.authorsfile config key to ~tom/.gitauthors; I received an error until changing it to read /home/ tom/.gitauthors.

Regards, Tom

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