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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add strcpy_user_path() and use it in init-db.c and git.c
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:50:33 -0800
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
> 
> > Hint: build git with: make 'prefix=~'
> 
> Sorry, I do not see why you would want to do this.  I understand
> "make prefix=~" or "make prefix=$HOME", but "make prefix='~'"
> and expanding tilde and friends at runtime you need to justify
> why it helps in which situation.
> 
> We are not DOS and do not do argument expansion shell should
> have done for us ourselves.

My home directories have different names on different machines I'm
on, and I want to avoid having to recompile git for each one.
I don't have root access to some of them, so installing globally in /usr
or /usr/local isn't an option, either.

-- 
Eric Wong