From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Git config not expanding user home directories Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:22:46 -0400 Message-ID: <20081001032246.GB24513@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <48E2043A.4000501@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Andreas Ericsson , Tom Lanyon , Karl Chen , Git Mailinglist To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 01 05:24:03 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KksJl-0001j3-Hx for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:24:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752922AbYJADWt (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:22:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752363AbYJADWt (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:22:49 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:3932 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752156AbYJADWs (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:22:48 -0400 Received: (qmail 14050 invoked by uid 111); 1 Oct 2008 03:22:47 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:22:47 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:22:46 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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