Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> writes: > In general I'm mildly negative on adding this, for every user like Doron > who'll be less confused by a hack like this, you'll have other users > who'll be confused about git inexplicably working with ~ in the middle > of strings, even though; > > $ echo git init --template ~/path > git init --template /home/avar/path > $ echo git init --template=~/path > git init --template=~/path > > I think it makes more sense to just leave such expansion to the shell, > and not try to magically expand it after the fact, since it's both > confusing (user: why does this work with git and not this other > program?), and as shown above changes existing semantics.
The above certainly is a reasonable argument. > I think this way lies madness, and it's better to just avoid it.
