Re: [PATCH] Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:34:26AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

Maybe:

  A leading path component of "~user" is expanded to the home directory
  of "user"; "~" is expanded to the home directory of the user running
  git.

would be more clear?

Add "real" before "user running git" and you have my vote. Or maybe
using the effective user would be better, and the patch should use
geteuid() instead of getuid(), I don't know. ident.c uses getuid(), but
I'm wondering if that's what it should use (although it doesn't seem to
have been a problem to anyone)

Mike