From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:32:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq7htma30n.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091119152359.GB6877@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu\, 19 Nov 2009 10\:23\:59 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:21:15PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> - of files which are not meant to be tracked. "~/" and "~user/"
>> - are expanded to the specified user's home directory. See
>> - linkgit:gitignore[5].
>> + of files which are not meant to be tracked. "~/" is expanded
>> + to the value of `$HOME` and "~user/" to the specified user's
>> + home directory. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
>
> Thanks. As a side effect, this wording change addresses my original
> ambiguity concern (and I also think using $HOME is the right thing to
> do).
Not a pure coincidence indeed ;-). In this new version, ~ and ~foo do
actually different things so they definitely deserve the heaviness of
a few extra words.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-19 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-16 10:07 [PATCH] Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template Matthieu Moy
2009-11-16 22:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-17 6:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-17 8:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-11-16 23:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-11-17 6:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-17 8:57 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-11-17 13:30 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-11-17 9:30 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-11-17 7:34 ` Jeff King
2009-11-17 7:49 ` Mike Hommey
2009-11-17 21:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-11-17 22:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-18 0:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-11-18 7:24 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-11-17 8:53 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-11-17 8:56 ` Jeff King
2009-11-17 17:24 ` [PATCH v2] " Matthieu Moy
2009-11-18 7:29 ` [PATCH v3] " Matthieu Moy
2009-11-18 8:58 ` [PATCH v4] " Matthieu Moy
2009-11-19 15:21 ` [PATCH] expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir Matthieu Moy
2009-11-19 15:23 ` Jeff King
2009-11-19 16:32 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2009-11-19 18:12 ` [PATCH v4] Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template Junio C Hamano
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