Tim Heckman cb5d1da986 Add support for home directory expansion for -c/--config flag
This change introduces the ability to use the tilde (`~`) character in your
`-c/--config` flag value to expand your home directory. If invoking this via the
command line with `--config ~/.golangci-lint.yaml`, the user's shell expands the
`~` to the home directory. However, if something is invoking the program for
you (like an editor) it may not do the expansion.

Fixes #289

Signed-off-by: Tim Heckman <t@heckman.io>
2018-11-14 14:30:26 +03:00

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go-homedir

This is a Go library for detecting the user's home directory without the use of cgo, so the library can be used in cross-compilation environments.

Usage is incredibly simple, just call homedir.Dir() to get the home directory for a user, and homedir.Expand() to expand the ~ in a path to the home directory.

Why not just use os/user? The built-in os/user package requires cgo on Darwin systems. This means that any Go code that uses that package cannot cross compile. But 99% of the time the use for os/user is just to retrieve the home directory, which we can do for the current user without cgo. This library does that, enabling cross-compilation.