From: Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:12:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Support "core.excludesfile = ~/.gitignore"
Message-ID: <quack.20080826T2012.lthvdxn2ls4@roar.cs.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20080827002506.GB7347@coredump.intra.peff.net>

>>>>> On 2008-08-26 17:25 PDT, Jeff King writes:

    Jeff>   1. It should probably re-use path.c:user_path, as
    Jeff>      Johannes mentioned.

That function has the wrong interface for this task (requires
extra strdup, imposes PATH_MAX, conflates all error conditions
into returning NULL, also returns NULL if input doesn't have "~").
Do you still think it should re-use that function?