Michael J Gruber <g...@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes: > But that argument applies to config files in exactly the same way as it > applies to command line arguments. Git is the only one reading them. So > why not leave it up to Git to decide about expansion?
Command line arguments are first processed by the shell, handling expansions like $HOME. It is part of the Unix philosophy that expansion of command lines is left to the shell. > On the other hand: If Git expanding arguments is surprising, why is it > unsurprising if Git expands config values? The config file is not processed by the shell. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
