Am 07.11.18 um 21:41 schrieb Jeff King:
On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 07:52:28PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:
Do I understand correctly, that you use a leading slash as an indicator to
construct a path relative to system_path(). How about a "reserved" user
name? For example,
[http] sslcert = ~system_path/what/ever
although a more unique name, perhaps with some punctuation, may be
desirable.
It's syntactically a bit further afield, but something like:
[http]
sslcert = $RUNTIME_PREFIX/what/ever
would make sense to me, and is a bit less subtle than the fake user. I
don't know if that would confuse people into thinking that we
interpolate arbitrary environment variables, though.
The expansion of a fake user name would have to go in
expand_user_path(), a fake variable name would have to be expanded
elsewhere. Now, Dscho mentions in the cover letter that his patch has
already seen some field testing ("has been 'in production' for a good
while"). So, we have gained some confidence that the point where the
substitution happens, in expand_user_path(), is suitable. Therefore, I
have slight preference for a fake user.
-- Hannes
