From: Andreas Schwab Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:20:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20091117074930.GB11636@glandium.org> Mike Hommey writes: > 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."