[PATCH] Make the --authors option to hgext/convert expand ~

[Greg Ward]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Simon de Vlieger <simon at ikanobori.jp> wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Simon de Vlieger <simon at ikanobori.jp>
> # Date 1267619331 -3600
> # Node ID 3078012f43dfcfe451933905cb5b609c6a9831ce
> # Parent  d1bbf01c4a8e187345a6c3f62b3409777b1bdf38
> Make the --authors option to hgext/convert expand ~

...but why?  That's what shells are for.  It's what they do.  They're
good at it.  For consistency, you should expand every filename passed
to Mercurial via any command-line argument, and I very much doubt such
a patch would be accepted.

Greg