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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add strcpy_user_path() and use it in init-db.c and git.c
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:08:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7virtes6zd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051224122016.GD3963@mail.yhbt.net> (Eric Wong's message of "Sat, 24 Dec 2005 04:20:16 -0800")

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> Hint: build git with: make 'prefix=~'

Sorry, I do not see why you would want to do this.  I understand
"make prefix=~" or "make prefix=$HOME", but "make prefix='~'"
and expanding tilde and friends at runtime you need to justify
why it helps in which situation.

We are not DOS and do not do argument expansion shell should
have done for us ourselves.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-24 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-24 12:20 [PATCH] add strcpy_user_path() and use it in init-db.c and git.c Eric Wong
2005-12-24 18:08 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-12-24 19:50   ` Eric Wong
2005-12-24 21:07     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-24 21:19       ` Eric Wong
2005-12-26 16:40         ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-12-30 23:10           ` Eric Wong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-26 17:42 Johannes Schindelin

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