[PATCH] patman: Support absolute and ~user-relative alias files

[Simon Glass]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 16:16, Brian Norris <briannorris at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Python doesn't naturally support tilde (~) as a user-home marker in
> paths, but git-config does. So we need to resolve it before continuing.
>
> We also shouldn't blindly join the top-level tree with the aliasesfile
> path, because it might be an absolute path.
>
> This resolves warnings like the following:
>
>   Warning: Cannot find alias file '/path/to/source/tree/~/.git-email'
>
> Seen when git-config is like:
>
>   $ git config sendemail.aliasesfile
>   ~/.git-email
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris at chromium.org>
> ---
>
>  tools/patman/gitutil.py | 11 ++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

+Otavio Salvador to check this one

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>