Jeff King schrieb: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:14:03PM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >> I'd say its git-gui, yes? Doesn't my shell automatically do >> --exclude-from=~/my.list for me? Its not the command's job >> to do that expansion. > > It depends on the shell. Bash will expand it in _some_ cases (but not > this one). Dash never will: > > $ echo $BASH_VERSION > 4.1.0(1)-release > $ echo foo=~/foo ;# expands > foo=/home/peff/foo This is wrong, FWIW. Tilde expansion must happen only at the beginning of a word or, when in an assignment, at the beginning of the assigned value or after any unquoted ':'. Note that in `echo foo=~/foo`, what looks like an assignment is *not* an assignment in POSIX shell lingo because it comes after the command name. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_01 -- Hannes -- 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