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author | Wim <wim@42.be> | 2021-10-16 23:11:32 +0200 |
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committer | Wim <wim@42.be> | 2021-10-16 23:23:24 +0200 |
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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir/README.md b/vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d70706d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# 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. |