>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Bill> Of course, and one could use a full path also, but tilde is a Bill> perfectly valid replacement for $HOME, Only to a shell. The kernel has no clue about it. I'd even say "only to *some* shells" as well, but most modern shells now understand it. Bill> and I think git should support Bill> it, and not force the user to work around it. The eval solution is wrong on multiple levels. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! - 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