This should handle .gitconfig files that specify things like:

[http]
        cookieFile = "~/.gitcookies"

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpe...@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/config.txt | 3 +++
 http.c                   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index a775ad885a76..d3ef2d3b5d13 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1660,6 +1660,9 @@ http.cookieFile::
        in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
        of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
        the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see linkgit:curl[1]).
+       The value of `http.cookieFile` is subject to tilde expansion: `~/` is
+       expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the specified user's
+       home directory.
        NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as
        input unless http.saveCookies is set.
 
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 4304b80ad3ac..1044f9ba0e28 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ static int http_options(const char *var, const char *value, 
void *cb)
                return git_config_string(&http_proxy_authmethod, var, value);
 
        if (!strcmp("http.cookiefile", var))
-               return git_config_string(&curl_cookie_file, var, value);
+               return git_config_pathname(&curl_cookie_file, var, value);
        if (!strcmp("http.savecookies", var)) {
                curl_save_cookies = git_config_bool(var, value);
                return 0;
-- 
2.8.1.340.g018a5d0.dirty

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