From b160a1c807fe6441517444136661d91425ae9673 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Spiers Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 23:16:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- doc/stow.texi | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/stow.texi b/doc/stow.texi index 160edf3..e6e45c7 100644 --- a/doc/stow.texi +++ b/doc/stow.texi @@ -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