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authorAdam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org>2016-12-18 23:16:41 +0000
committerAdam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org>2016-12-18 23:17:19 +0000
commitb160a1c807fe6441517444136661d91425ae9673 (patch)
treee9ff5531b9c17e27be3052ac943c473a6a3f4569
parent5a8d275c47e22605f43407e825c9ba3e94fc1616 (diff)
downloadstow-b160a1c807fe6441517444136661d91425ae9673.tar.gz
clarify that ~/.stowrc args don't get processed by a shell
Address confusion reported here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2016-08/msg00000.html
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diff --git a/doc/stow.texi b/doc/stow.texi
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@@ -850,7 +850,8 @@ directory.
Default command line options may be set in @file{.stowrc} (current
directory) or @file{~/.stowrc} (home directory). These are parsed in
-that order, and effectively prepended to the command line arguments.
+that order, and effectively prepended to the command line arguments
+(with the notable difference that they won't be processed by the shell).
This feature can be used for some interesting effects.
For example, suppose your site uses more than one stow directory, perhaps in