On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:34:26AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > Maybe: > > A leading path component of "~user" is expanded to the home directory > of "user"; "~" is expanded to the home directory of the user running > git. > > would be more clear? Add "real" before "user running git" and you have my vote. Or maybe using the effective user would be better, and the patch should use geteuid() instead of getuid(), I don't know. ident.c uses getuid(), but I'm wondering if that's what it should use (although it doesn't seem to have been a problem to anyone) Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html