On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:13:50 +0200 Karl Hasselström <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It seems that ~foo is only expanded to foo's home if there is such a > user. Since all-numeric users probably aren't common, we can probably > get away with it. Someone just mentioned to me that ~# is expanded by Bash if you use the pushd command to keep a directory stack. So ~1 will stop working if you use "pushd". Maybe it'd be more confusing than helpful. On the other hand, there's probably no reason for Git to just give an error message if it receives a properly escaped lone "~", "~#", or "^". Sean - 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
