Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > "~" is a shell feature. Know your shell. If we make an exception for > --git-dir, we might have to support --blahblah=~/somewhere. Correct but not entirely true. When we know --git-dir=<path> must name a path, we should be able to do better. See OPT_FILENAME in >parse-optios.h>, for inspiration. MJG's patch later in this thread is conceptually OK but I do not think it should introduce a "expand and then setenv" helper that won't be useful unless the variable is GIT_DIR. That pattern does not appear that often, and smells like a bad API design taste. -- 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