From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [RFC] Questions for "Git User's Survey 2010" - features used, features wanted Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:51:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <201008152357.29889.jnareb@gmail.com> <20100815221327.GB2666@burratino> <201008160051.23283.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jonathan Nieder , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 16 08:52:07 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OktYE-0004U2-Hj for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:52:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752627Ab0HPGv7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:51:59 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:36663 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752609Ab0HPGv7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:51:59 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7G6n96H029743 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:49:09 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OktY1-0001QG-0y; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:51:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: <201008160051.23283.jnareb@gmail.com> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Mon\, 16 Aug 2010 00\:51\:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:49:09 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: o7G6n96H029743 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1282546153.6011@16lByb9pRkWBbIrZk8Of8A Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski writes: >> > 16. Which of the following features would you like to see implemented >> > in git? >> [...] >> > + environmental variables in config, expanding ~ and ~user >> >> I think we have ~ and ~user now. > > Thanks, will fix. To be more precise, Git knows how to expand ~ and ~user (that's git_config_pathname() in C, and "git config --path" from the command-line), and does it for some configuration variables (core.excludesfile for example). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/