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

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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:53:52AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Yes. "user" in the sentence is either the user running Git or the same
> string as "user" in "~user". I'm not against your proposal, but I'm
> afraid we're making the sentence uselessly heavy, since, as you say,
> this ~ and ~user convention is widely spread, and I hardly imagine
> someone interpreting the sentence as "if you say ~foo, it will expand
> to the home directory of bar".

I didn't think it would expand ~foo to the home directory of bar. I
thought that it might _only_ accept ~bar, and not ~foo.

If I'm the only one confused, then we can drop it. But if not, I don't
think it is much more work to be precise.

-Peff
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