Re: [PATCH 2/2] http: expand http.cookieFile as a path

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2016, 17:55 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq7ffgz4ej.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160429174958.GA30593@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:48:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > I mostly just copied from boilerplate on another option. IIRC, there
>> > were at least two other options that were documented similarly.
>> 
>> My quick grep didn't find 'another option' other than include.path,
>> but how about this as a preparatory step?
>
> I found core.excludesFile and commit.template which could use the same
> treatment.
>
> -Peff

Thanks. Perhaps squash this to the patch in the message you are responding to.

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index ff7eaaf..786e0fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -603,11 +603,10 @@ be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be.
 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
 
 core.excludesFile::
-	In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
-	'.git/info/exclude', Git looks into this file for patterns
-	of files which are not meant to be tracked.  "`~/`" is expanded
-	to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the specified user's
-	home directory. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
+	Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to
+	describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition
+	to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude'.
+	Defaults to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
 	If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore
 	is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
 
@@ -1116,9 +1115,8 @@ commit.status::
 	message.  Defaults to true.
 
 commit.template::
-	Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
-	"`~/`" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the
-	specified user's home directory.
+	Specify the pathname of a file to use as the template for
+	new commit messages.
 
 credential.helper::
 	Specify an external helper to be called when a username or