Subject: Re: GIT_DIR vs. --git-dir

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:42:35 +0200

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> Bash is even weirder than you might think. Try this:
>
>   $ echo ~/foo
>   /home/peff/foo
>
>   $ echo arg=~/foo
>   arg=/home/peff/foo
>
>   $ echo --arg=~/foo
>   --arg=~/foo

Bash expands all arguments that look like variable assignments.  That
lets you write "export arg=~/foo" even though a POSIX shell wouldn't
tilde expand it.

Andreas.

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