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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-04-29 17:51:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-04-29 17:51:27 -0700 |
| commit | 5fa8bf6bf9d20ccb37ed46ec7027a9ac64b2a2a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 525bf6d5cec5b2cb0f36dcc578903fa06e380823 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'pw/t5800-import-race-fix' (diff) | |
| parent | config: expand tildes in include.path variable (diff) | |
| download | tgif-5fa8bf6bf9d20ccb37ed46ec7027a9ac64b2a2a7.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'mm/include-userpath'
The new "include.path" directive in the configuration files learned
to understand "~/path" and "~user/path".
By Jeff King
* mm/include-userpath:
config: expand tildes in include.path variable
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index fb386abc51..83ad8ebce0 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ included file is expanded immediately, as if its contents had been found at the location of the include directive. If the value of the `include.path` variable is a relative path, the path is considered to be relative to the configuration file in which the include directive was -found. See below for examples. +found. The value of `include.path` is subject to tilde expansion: `{tilde}/` +is expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `{tilde}user/` to the specified +user's home directory. See below for examples. Example ~~~~~~~ @@ -122,6 +124,7 @@ Example [include] path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path path = foo ; expand "foo" relative to the current file + path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your $HOME directory Variables ~~~~~~~~~ |