[PATCH] expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir.
From: Matthieu Moy <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:47:44
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
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 $HOME, so it's better to be consistent. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <redacted> --- This is basically my patch v4, but since an earlier version is already in next, I resend the last bits of it, based on next. Documentation/config.txt | 9 +++++---- path.c | 13 +++++++++---- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 468e285..39d1226 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt@@ -381,9 +381,9 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. core.excludesfile:: In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns - of files which are not meant to be tracked. "~/" and "~user/" - are expanded to the specified user's home directory. See - linkgit:gitignore[5]. + of files which are not meant to be tracked. "~/" is expanded + to the value of `$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
@@ -683,7 +683,8 @@ 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
diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index b4a8075..2ec950b 100644
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c@@ -235,10 +235,15 @@ char *expand_user_path(const char *path) if (path[0] == '~') { const char *username = path + 1; size_t username_len = first_slash - username; - struct passwd *pw = getpw_str(username, username_len); - if (!pw) - goto return_null; - strbuf_add(&user_path, pw->pw_dir, strlen(pw->pw_dir)); + if (username_len == 0) { + const char *home = getenv("HOME"); + strbuf_add(&user_path, home, strlen(home)); + } else { + struct passwd *pw = getpw_str(username, username_len); + if (!pw) + goto return_null; + strbuf_add(&user_path, pw->pw_dir, strlen(pw->pw_dir)); + } to_copy = first_slash; } strbuf_add(&user_path, to_copy, strlen(to_copy));
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