From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:51:52 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Questions for "Git User's Survey 2010" - features used, features wanted Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201008160051.23283.jnareb@gmail.com> Jakub Narebski writes: >> > 16. Which of the following features would you like to see implemented >> > in git? >> [...] >> > + environmental variables in config, expanding ~ and ~user >> >> I think we have ~ and ~user now. > > Thanks, will fix. To be more precise, Git knows how to expand ~ and ~user (that's git_config_pathname() in C, and "git config --path" from the command-line), and does it for some configuration variables (core.excludesfile for example). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/