[PATCH 2/2] http: expand http.cookieFile as a path
From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-06-16 02:19:04
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
This should handle .gitconfig files that specify things like: [http] cookieFile = "~/.gitcookies" Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> --- Documentation/config.txt | 3 +++ http.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index a775ad885a76..d3ef2d3b5d13 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt@@ -1660,6 +1660,9 @@ http.cookieFile:: in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see linkgit:curl[1]). + The value of `http.cookieFile` is subject to tilde expansion: `~/` is + expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the specified user's + home directory. NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as input unless http.saveCookies is set.
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 4304b80ad3ac..1044f9ba0e28 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ static int http_options(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) return git_config_string(&http_proxy_authmethod, var, value); if (!strcmp("http.cookiefile", var)) - return git_config_string(&curl_cookie_file, var, value); + return git_config_pathname(&curl_cookie_file, var, value); if (!strcmp("http.savecookies", var)) { curl_save_cookies = git_config_bool(var, value); return 0;
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