On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> OK, I think I see why you are puzzled. >>> >>> Cloning works fine because we "fix the path" *after* the clone is done >>> successfully, for the following reason: >> >> So if we didn't store a different path, it would work. So instead of >> expanding '~' ourselves, it would be better to don't expand anything, >> and leave it as it is, but how to detect that in fix_path()? > > I think that the patch relies on that os.path.expanduser(), if > url.path is such a path that begins with "~" (or "~whom"), returns > an absolute path. When given an absolute path, or "~whom/path", > fix_path returns without running 'git config' on remote.<alias>.url > configuration. I think ~whom/path would run 'git config'. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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