Re: [PATCH 2/2] http: expand http.cookieFile as a path

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

I'm not sure if it's a good idea to go into so much detail about
expand_user_path() here. There are a lot of options that use the same
rules, and we probably don't want to go into a complete explanation
inside each option's description. Is there a canonical definition of how
we do expansion in config.txt that we can just reference (and if not,
can we add one)?

We have a dedicated section for various value-types used in the
configuration variables already, because we needed to describe how
booleans and scaled integers can be spelled, and the pathname type
would fit there.

 Documentation/config.txt | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 59d7046..1bf42a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt

@@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ thing on the same output line (e.g. opening parenthesis before the
 list of branch names in `log --decorate` output) is set to be
 painted with `bold` or some other attribute.
 
+pathname::
+	A variable that takes a pathname value can be given a
+	string that begins with "~/" or "~user/", and the usual
+	tilde expansion happens to such a string.
+
 
 Variables
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