Re: [PATCH v4] Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

>>>>>> On 2008-08-29 12:28 PDT, Junio C Hamano writes:
>
>     Junio>  [3/3] Update the sole caller of user_path() to use
>     Junio>  expand_user_path().
>
> Actually I just looked closer at enter_repo() and it's not quite
> as simple as your proposed patch, because enter_repo() wants to
> concatenate suffixes like ".git".

I thought the "just an illustration" patch at least took care of that
part.

The thing is that enter_repo() is not performance critical, it is where
server side programs validate the repository path received from the other
end of the network, and we can be stricter than necessary about path
lengths.  I do not particularly think it is necessary to convert it and
use strbuf to allow arbitrarily long paths --- rejecting requests to an
absurdly deep directory is not an end of the world there.