Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. It's a bash extension and disabled in POSIX mode. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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