Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git: expand user path in --git-dir

From: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:27:47 +0200

Jan Engelhardt venit, vidit, dixit 25.09.2012 07:33:
> 
> On Monday 2012-09-24 14:57, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> 
>> Currently, all paths in the config file are subject to tilde expansion
>> for user paths while the argument to --git-dir is not expanded, and
>> neither are paths in the environment such as GIT_DIR. From the user
>> perspective, though, the two commands
>>
>> GIT_DIR=~user/foo git command
>> git --git-dir=~user/foo command
>>
>> currently behave differently because in the first case the shell would
>> perform tilde expansion, but not in the second.
> 
> If git uses a standardized option logic (getopt-like) which accepts
> both '=' and (new argument) for long options, you could easily do
> 
> 	git --git-dir ~user/foo command

Of course, but wouldn't it be even more confusing if tilde expansion "is
done" for "--git-dir ~user/foo" but not "--git-dir=~user/foo"?

That confusion is all bash's "fault" since "is done" == "is done by
bash" (or not), but still.

Michael