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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-12-03 13:51:36 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-12-03 13:51:36 -0800
commitd1dfc016d868322638c87a23a624651874a107c2 (patch)
treecc2a7e259b875f5c0e72ddd26c4a430ae2b8b008 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'bc/grep-i-F' into maint (diff)
parentDocumentation: avoid xmlto input error (diff)
downloadtgif-d1dfc016d868322638c87a23a624651874a107c2.tar.xz
Merge branch 'mm/config-pathname-tilde-expand' into maint
* mm/config-pathname-tilde-expand: Documentation: avoid xmlto input error expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d1e2120e15..01766b0aa5 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -380,8 +380,9 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
core.excludesfile::
In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
'.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns
- of files which are not meant to be tracked. See
- linkgit:gitignore[5].
+ of files which are not meant to be tracked. "{tilde}/" is expanded
+ to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the specified user's
+ home directory. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
core.editor::
Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
@@ -670,6 +671,8 @@ color.ui::
commit.template::
Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
+ "{tilde}/" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the
+ specified user's home directory.
diff.autorefreshindex::
When using 'git-diff' to compare with work tree