Re: Git config not expanding user home directories

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 30, 2008, 11:38 UTC
Message-ID: <m33ajhsw24.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <48E2043A.4000501@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

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> Tom Lanyon wrote:
> > 
> > Is it normal behavior that git (well at least git-svn) won't expand
> > ~user from .gitconfig?
> >
> 
> Yes. You could add a patch for that though. git-daemon does ~user
> expansion since quite a long time back, so there's a function ready
> for it. I'd do it by doing something like:
> 
>    git config --path section.key
> 
> so that scripts can get the user-expanded version as well. In-core
> applications can call expand_path() or some such on their own, I
> think.

There was a patch send to git mailing list adding basic '~' support (I think via $ENV{HOME}), and IIRC even ~user support. I don't know what happened to those patches (check mailing list archive), but most probably it was not accepted because it didn't provide a way for scripts to use this functionality, for example via --path option.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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