Subject: [PATCH 1/2] parse-options: expand $HOME on filename options

From: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:51:48 +0700

When you specify "--path ~/foo", the shell will automatically expand
~/foo to $HOME/foo before it's passed to git. The expansion is not done
on "--path=~/foo". An experienced user sees the difference but it could
still be confusing for others (especially when tab-completion still
works on --path=~/foo).

Support $HOME expansion for all filename options. There are about seven
of them.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email-masked]>
---
 parse-options.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
index d265a756b5..c33f14c74e 100644
--- a/parse-options.c
+++ b/parse-options.c
@@ -38,10 +38,13 @@ static int get_arg(struct parse_opt_ctx_t *p, const struct option *opt,
 
 static void fix_filename(const char *prefix, const char **file)
 {
-	if (!file || !*file || !prefix || is_absolute_path(*file)
-	    || !strcmp("-", *file))
+	if (!file || !*file || is_absolute_path(*file) ||
+	    !strcmp("-", *file))
 		return;
-	*file = prefix_filename(prefix, *file);
+	if (**file == '~')
+		*file = expand_user_path(*file, 0);
+	else if (prefix)
+		*file = prefix_filename(prefix, *file);
 }
 
 static int opt_command_mode_error(const struct option *opt,
-- 
2.16.1.435.g8f24da2e1a