[darcs-users] Re: get via ssh fails if path to repo contains ~/

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Sat Apr 9 12:29:52 UTC 2005


On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 04:14:40AM +0200, Benedikt Schmidt wrote:
> I think since you don't have to specify multiple remote repos the confusion
> about using "~" or not is the only problem, there are some bug reports about
> that IIRC. We could
> a) just remove ~/ at the start of the path in a ssh-url

That's what I was thinking.. certainly we don't want to try to do general
shell expansion.

> b) improve the error message and add a hint about tilda-expansion if the path
>    starts with ~
> 
> I prefer b).

b) would also be fine with me.  It's a bit cleaner, I suppose.
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