# Git config not expanding user home directories 5 messages from 2008-09-30 to 2008-10-01. Participants: Tom Lanyon, Andreas Ericsson, Jakub Narebski, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15721 ## Tom Lanyon, 2008-09-30 10:46 Subject: Git config not expanding user home directories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/F90667E7-6B06-4B34-B655-3C42ED236D9A%40netspot.com.au ``` Hi all, Is it normal behavior that git (well at least git-svn) won't expand ~user from .gitconfig? I was trying to set the svn.authorsfile config key to ~tom/.gitauthors; I received an error until changing it to read /home/ tom/.gitauthors. Regards, Tom ``` ## Andreas Ericsson, 2008-09-30 10:49 Subject: Re: Git config not expanding user home directories Message-ID: <48E2043A.4000501@op5.se> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/48E2043A.4000501%40op5.se In-Reply-To: ``` Tom Lanyon wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it normal behavior that git (well at least git-svn) won't expand > ~user from .gitconfig? > Yes. You could add a patch for that though. git-daemon does ~user expansion since quite a long time back, so there's a function ready for it. I'd do it by doing something like: git config --path section.key so that scripts can get the user-expanded version as well. In-core applications can call expand_path() or some such on their own, I think. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-09-30 11:38 Subject: Re: Git config not expanding user home directories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m33ajhsw24.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <48E2043A.4000501@op5.se> ``` Andreas Ericsson writes: > Tom Lanyon wrote: > > > > Is it normal behavior that git (well at least git-svn) won't expand > > ~user from .gitconfig? > > > > Yes. You could add a patch for that though. git-daemon does ~user > expansion since quite a long time back, so there's a function ready > for it. I'd do it by doing something like: > > git config --path section.key > > so that scripts can get the user-expanded version as well. In-core > applications can call expand_path() or some such on their own, I > think. There was a patch send to git mailing list adding basic '~' support (I think via $ENV{HOME}), and IIRC even ~user support. I don't know what happened to those patches (check mailing list archive), but most probably it was not accepted because it didn't provide a way for scripts to use this functionality, for example via --path option. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Jeff King, 2008-10-01 03:22 Subject: Re: Git config not expanding user home directories Message-ID: <20081001032246.GB24513@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081001032246.GB24513%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:38:46AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote: > There was a patch send to git mailing list adding basic '~' support > (I think via $ENV{HOME}), and IIRC even ~user support. I don't know > what happened to those patches (check mailing list archive), but > most probably it was not accepted because it didn't provide a way > for scripts to use this functionality, for example via --path option. There were several rounds, and I thought it was shaping up, but then no more rounds came. I assume that Karl lost interest (or perhaps we nitpicked him to death), but I thought at the end of the thread Junio laid out a plan for the next revision. I guess nobody cared enough about the feature to implement it after that (though I think I found the final version acceptable with a minor documentation tweak, I think Junio laid out a cleaner approach). The last patch is here, with one of the replies from Junio giving the aforementioned plan: http://mid.gmane.org/quack.20080829T0229.lthhc94rwyr_-_@roar.cs.berkeley.edu -Peff ``` ## Andreas Ericsson, 2008-10-01 07:52 Subject: Re: Git config not expanding user home directories Message-ID: <48E32C44.40708@op5.se> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/48E32C44.40708%40op5.se In-Reply-To: <20081001032246.GB24513@coredump.intra.peff.net> ``` Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:38:46AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote: > >> There was a patch send to git mailing list adding basic '~' support >> (I think via $ENV{HOME}), and IIRC even ~user support. I don't know >> what happened to those patches (check mailing list archive), but >> most probably it was not accepted because it didn't provide a way >> for scripts to use this functionality, for example via --path option. > > There were several rounds, and I thought it was shaping up, but then > no more rounds came. I assume that Karl lost interest (or perhaps we > nitpicked him to death), but I thought at the end of the thread Junio > laid out a plan for the next revision. I guess nobody cared enough about > the feature to implement it after that (though I think I found the final > version acceptable with a minor documentation tweak, I think Junio laid > out a cleaner approach). > > The last patch is here, with one of the replies from Junio giving the > aforementioned plan: > > http://mid.gmane.org/quack.20080829T0229.lthhc94rwyr_-_@roar.cs.berkeley.edu > That looks roughly like the way I'd have done it. I'll see if I can find the time to polish it up a bit. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ```