* git gui bug: filenames starting with ~
@ 2015-03-29 0:25 Peter Cordes
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From: Peter Cordes @ 2015-03-29 0:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I didn't check if git claims to support arbitrary filenames. If a
leading ~ isn't allowed, then this isn't a bug.
I'm using git-gui version 0.19.GITGUI, from git version 2.3.4, from
the Ubuntu PPA.
git 2:2.3.4-1avh1~utopic1
steps to reproduce:
mkdir -p git-shellmeta && cd git-shellmeta
git init
touch '~bin' '~xyz'
git gui &
In the gui, ~bin appears in the list of files with unstaged changes.
However, instead of appearing as a file, the diff pane shows
Git Repository (subproject)
Selecting ~xyz pops up a dialog saying:
Error loading file:
user "xyz" doesn't exist
So I guess username expansion is happening somewhere it shouldn't.
The home directory of the "bin" user on my system is /bin, which is
not a (subdir of a) git repo. The message that ~bin is a subproject
is another symptom of this bug.
PS.
no, I didn't name that ~bin file. Someone else left it lying around
in a directory.
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Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@cor , des.ca)
"The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours!
Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC
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