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). -Peff -- 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