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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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Apr 29, 2016, 17:52 UTC

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> 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?
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] config: describe 'pathname' value type

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 39867f5..b7d3e69 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1665,13 +1665,11 @@ http.emptyAuth::
 	authentication.
 
 http.cookieFile::
-	File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used
+	The pathname of a file containing previously stored cookie lines,
+	which should be used
 	in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
 	of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
 	the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see linkgit:curl[1]).
-	The value of `http.cookieFile` is subject to tilde expansion: `~/` is
-	expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the specified user's
-	home directory.
 	NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as
 	input unless http.saveCookies is set.