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From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] Updated patch series for providing mechanism to list
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:14:54 -0400
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On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 01:42 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> (if you use getpwent instead of getenv to fetch $HOME).

That seems like it could lead to problems with multiple users with the
same UID, and possibly also on Windows.  If it=E2=80=99s important to b=
e
paranoid here, what about all the other places Git already uses
getenv("HOME"), including where it reads ~/.gitconfig?

Anders