From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:33:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git: expand user path in --git-dir
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1209250732150.25195@nerf07.vanv.qr>
In-Reply-To: <fdeaa78c0a520ce80e6d2cb09978dab348104eaf.1348491039.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>


On Monday 2012-09-24 14:57, Michael J Gruber wrote:

>Currently, all paths in the config file are subject to tilde expansion
>for user paths while the argument to --git-dir is not expanded, and
>neither are paths in the environment such as GIT_DIR. From the user
>perspective, though, the two commands
>
>GIT_DIR=~user/foo git command
>git --git-dir=~user/foo command
>
>currently behave differently because in the first case the shell would
>perform tilde expansion, but not in the second.

If git uses a standardized option logic (getopt-like) which accepts
both '=' and (new argument) for long options, you could easily do

	git --git-dir ~user/foo command