On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 09:59:58PM +0300, Theodor Negrescu wrote: > You're right, "notepad ~/test.txt" doesn't work either. > I figured out a workaround: > [alias] > cfg = "!git config --file $(echo ~)/git-settings/.gitconfig " > However what confuses me is that I also have > [core] > hooksPath = ~/git-settings/hooks > and that ~ works. So why doesn't it work in config --file? Some config options that refer to paths specifically expand "~", exactly because there is no shell involved when Git reads them. -Peff
