Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote: > It tells me that it is A BAD BAD BAD idea to use "~" in directory names, > like I did when I declared upstream to be > 2007~svn3741 Well, it's also a bug in whatever program didn't accept that... ~ is supposed to be interpreted by the shell (when not quoted), but once you have your argv[], there is no tilde expansion to do on it any more. -- Florent