Repo.init() now supports paths with a '~' in it, or environment variables in general.

Fixes #83

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git/test/test_repo.py b/git/test/test_repo.py
index 25acbec9..0153d886 100644
--- a/git/test/test_repo.py
+++ b/git/test/test_repo.py
@@ -383,6 +383,16 @@ class TestRepo(TestBase):
         assert self.rorepo == self.rorepo and not (self.rorepo != self.rorepo)
         assert len(set((self.rorepo, self.rorepo))) == 1
 
+    @with_rw_directory
+    def test_tilde_in_repo_path(self, rw_dir):
+        ph = os.environ['HOME']
+        try:
+            os.environ['HOME'] = rw_dir
+            Repo.init(os.path.join(rw_dir, 'test.git'), bare=True)
+        finally:
+            os.environ['HOME'] = ph
+        # end assure HOME gets reset to what it was
+
     def test_git_cmd(self):
         # test CatFileContentStream, just to be very sure we have no fencepost errors
         # last \n is the terminating newline that it expects