Fixed#731

[toanant]

Added check for local file url starting with $HOME / ~ to expand them using os.path.expanduser.

[Byron]

Thanks for your contribution!
That's an interesting issue as I was already posing the question if that's indeed a capability one would expect of GitPython, as opposed to the shell. Since it's acknowledged nonetheless and I the feature (probably) doesn't hurt, it's probably OK to merge it.

Something I think should be added in any case is support for the windows version of the home directory, something common seems %UserProfile%.

#731 also reveals that similar functionality was present at some point but seemingly removed. Without a test, this may happen here again. However, I would be OK to merge without a specific test.

Thanks a lot!

[stsewd]

As a more general solution we could use expandvars https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.expandvars

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Codecov Report

Merging #934 into master will increase coverage by 0.12%.
The diff coverage is 50%.

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##           master    #934      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   93.47%   93.6%   +0.12%     
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  Files          59      59              
  Lines        9583    9804     +221     
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+ Hits         8958    9177     +219     
- Misses        625     627       +2

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
git/cmd.py	82.59% <50%> (-0.1%)	⬇️
git/objects/blob.py	100% <0%> (ø)	⬆️
git/refs/remote.py	100% <0%> (ø)	⬆️
git/test/test_diff.py	100% <0%> (ø)	⬆️
git/test/performance/test_streams.py	100% <0%> (ø)	⬆️
git/test/test_tree.py	100% <0%> (ø)	⬆️
git/test/test_exc.py	100% <0%> (ø)	⬆️
git/test/test_docs.py	99.6% <0%> (ø)	⬆️
git/test/test_refs.py	99.18% <0%> (ø)	⬆️
git/test/test_config.py	98.8% <0%> (ø)	⬆️
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[Byron]

Thanks a lot! This will work!