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Re: [PATCH] Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Nov 17, 2009, 21:20 UTC
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Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
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> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:34:26AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>> Maybe:
>> 
>>   A leading path component of "~user" is expanded to the home directory
>>   of "user"; "~" is expanded to the home directory of the user running
>>   git.
>> 
>> would be more clear?
>
> Add "real" before "user running git" and you have my vote. Or maybe
> using the effective user would be better, and the patch should use
> geteuid() instead of getuid(), I don't know. ident.c uses getuid(), but
> I'm wondering if that's what it should use (although it doesn't seem to
> have been a problem to anyone)

"~" should just expand to the value of $HOME, like in the shell, independent of the real home directory of the real or effective user.

Andreas.
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Message 12 of 24 in “Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template”
  1. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.templateMatthieu Moy, Nov 16, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2009
  4. Matthieu MoyNov 17, 2009
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 16, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2009
  7. Matthieu MoyNov 17, 2009
  8. Jakub NarebskiNov 17, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiNov 17, 2009
  10. Jeff KingNov 17, 2009
  11. Mike HommeyNov 17, 2009
  12. Andreas SchwabNov 17, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2009
  14. Andreas SchwabNov 18, 2009
  15. Matthieu MoyNov 18, 2009
  16. Matthieu MoyNov 17, 2009
  17. Jeff KingNov 17, 2009
  18. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.templateMatthieu Moy, Nov 17, 2009
  19. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.templateMatthieu Moy, Nov 18, 2009
  20. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.templateMatthieu Moy, Nov 18, 2009
  21. expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir.Matthieu Moy, Nov 19, 2009
  22. Jeff KingNov 19, 2009
  23. Matthieu MoyNov 19, 2009
  24. Junio C HamanoNov 19, 2009

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