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From: Randal L. Schwartz
Subject: Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 8:16 am

>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:

Bill> Of course, and one could use a full path also, but tilde is a
Bill> perfectly valid replacement for $HOME,

Only to a shell.  The kernel has no clue about it.  I'd even say "only
to *some* shells" as well, but most modern shells now understand it.

Bill>  and I think git should support
Bill> it, and not force the user to work around it.

The eval solution is wrong on multiple levels.

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EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Bill Lear, (Tue Aug 28, 7:12 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, (Tue Aug 28, 7:37 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Bill Lear, (Tue Aug 28, 7:44 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Mike Hommey, (Tue Aug 28, 7:52 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Petr Baudis, (Tue Aug 28, 7:58 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Mike Hommey, (Tue Aug 28, 8:03 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Randal L. Schwartz, (Tue Aug 28, 8:16 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Bill Lear, (Tue Aug 28, 8:17 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Mike Hommey, (Tue Aug 28, 8:20 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Kyle Rose, (Tue Aug 28, 8:22 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Petr Baudis, (Tue Aug 28, 8:24 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Bill Lear, (Tue Aug 28, 8:24 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Mike Hommey, (Tue Aug 28, 8:25 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Petr Baudis, (Tue Aug 28, 8:27 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Bill Lear, (Tue Aug 28, 8:28 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Matthieu Moy, (Tue Aug 28, 8:50 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Matthieu Moy, (Tue Aug 28, 8:58 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Randal L. Schwartz, (Tue Aug 28, 9:00 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Matthieu Moy, (Tue Aug 28, 9:11 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Alex Riesen, (Tue Aug 28, 10:47 am)
Re: EDITOR with tilde not expanded in git-commit, Kyle Rose, (Tue Aug 28, 10:52 am)