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

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> These config variables are parsed to substitute ~ and ~user with getpw
> entries.
> 
> user_path() refactored into new function expand_user_path(), to allow
> dynamically allocating the return buffer.
> 
> Original patch by Karl Chen, modified by Matthieu Moy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karl Chen <quarl@quarl.org>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
> ---

> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index d1e2120..c37b51d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -380,7 +380,8 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
>  core.excludesfile::
>  	In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
>  	'.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns
> -	of files which are not meant to be tracked.  See
> +	of files which are not meant to be tracked.  "~" and "~user"
> +	are expanded to the user's home directory.  See
>  	linkgit:gitignore[5].
>  
>  core.editor::

It would be nice to have an option to git-config which would do such
expansion, as a separate type similar to --int and --bool, e.g.:

  git config --path section.key

so that not only core.excludesfile could use this new feature, but for
example also core.worktree, commit.template, gitcvs.logfile,
mailmap.file, and perhaps also *.receivepack and *.uploadpack

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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