From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:11:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mingw: handle absolute paths in expand_user_path() Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20181107220320.GA8970@sigill.intra.peff.net> Hi Peff, On Wed, 7 Nov 2018, Jeff King wrote: > All that said, if we're just interested in allowing this for config, > then we already have such a wrapper function: git_config_pathname(). Good point. I agree that `git_config_pathname()` is a better home for this feature than `expand_user_path()`. But now I have a really crazy idea: how about ~~/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt? The `~` prefix is *already* a reserved character, and while it would probably not be super intuitive to have `~~` be expanded to the runtime prefix, at least it would be less ambiguous than `$RUNTIME_PREFIX` (which *is* a valid directory name). Of course, `~~` is also a valid directory name, but then, so is `~` and we do not have any way to specify *that* because `expand_user_path()` will always expand it to the home directory. Or am I wrong? Do we have a way to disable the expansion? Ciao, Dscho