Re: wishlist: git gui not listing untracked files in unstaged list

Jeff King schrieb:

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:14:03PM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

quoted

I'd say its git-gui, yes?  Doesn't my shell automatically do
--exclude-from=~/my.list for me?  Its not the command's job
to do that expansion.

It depends on the shell. Bash will expand it in _some_ cases (but not
this one). Dash never will:

  $ echo $BASH_VERSION
  4.1.0(1)-release
  $ echo foo=~/foo ;# expands
  foo=/home/peff/foo

This is wrong, FWIW. Tilde expansion must happen only at the beginning of
a word or, when in an assignment, at the beginning of the assigned value
or after any unquoted ':'. Note that in `echo foo=~/foo`, what looks like
an assignment is *not* an assignment in POSIX shell lingo because it comes
after the command name.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_01

-- Hannes