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On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:13:50 +0200
Karl Hasselstr=F6m <kha@treskal.com> wrote:

> It seems that ~foo is only expanded to foo's home if there is such a
> user. Since all-numeric users probably aren't common, we can probably
> get away with it.

Someone just mentioned to me that ~# is expanded by Bash if you use the
pushd command to keep a directory stack.   So ~1 will stop working
if you use "pushd".   Maybe it'd be more confusing than helpful.  On th=
e
other hand, there's probably no reason for Git to just give an error
message if it receives a properly escaped lone "~", "~#", or "^".

Sean