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put() not expanding tildes correctly

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Description

IRC user mercurial reports that when he calls put('blah.tar.gz', '~/target_existing_directory'), Fabric spits out a “File not found” IOError abort. Replacing the tilde with an absolute path works correctly. This implies that the tilde replacement is broken.

For reference, his local system is OS X 10.6 and his remote is Ubuntu 10.04.

Originally submitted by Jeff Forcier (bitprophet) on 2011-03-18 at 07:37pm EDT

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Created 12 years ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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peterbjorgensencommented, Jan 7, 2021

I think this bug is back. I am using fabric 2.5.0 on Arch linux with python 3.9.1

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pope1nicommented, Nov 2, 2011

Indeed. And fair point.

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