From: Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:01:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template
Message-ID: <quack.20080829T1201.lthsksnir1u@roar.cs.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vsksn4xdo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

>>>>> On 2008-08-29 09:08 PDT, Junio C Hamano writes:

    Junio> I do not see any strong reason why the single caller of
    Junio> user_path() has to keep using the static allocation.
    Junio> Would it help to reduce the complexity of your
    Junio> expand_user_path() implementation, if we fixed the
    Junio> caller along the lines of this patch (untested, but
    Junio> just to illustrate the point)?

Yes, expand_user_path() would be much simpler, it would basically
be me original implementation except for returning NULL on error.