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authorMatthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>2009-11-19 16:21:15 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-11-19 10:01:12 -0800
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expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir.
In 395de250d (Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template), we introduced the mechanism. But expanding ~ using getpw is not what people overriding $HOME would usually expect. In particular, git looks for the user's .gitconfig using $HOME, so it's better to be consistent. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 958006ca7..143afb82e 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -380,9 +380,9 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
core.excludesfile::
In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
'.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns
- of files which are not meant to be tracked. "~/" and "~user/"
- are expanded to the specified user's home directory. See
- linkgit:gitignore[5].
+ of files which are not meant to be tracked. "~/" is expanded
+ to the value of `$HOME` and "~user/" to the specified user's
+ home directory. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
core.editor::
Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
@@ -667,7 +667,8 @@ color.ui::
commit.template::
Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
- "~/" and "~user/" are expanded to the specified user's home directory.
+ "~/" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "~user/" to the
+ specified user's home directory.
diff.autorefreshindex::
When using 'git-diff' to compare with work tree