From a4a1231e92a58f5c08396aff4190e43b13b953a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakob Borg <jakob@kastelo.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:03:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gui: Remove tilde auto-expansions (fixes #8890) (#8954)

This removes the tilde expansion we had in the GUI. I'm not sure why we
had it, but there are valid reasons to have a folder path with tilde in
it in the config, and it was previously impossible to enter one of
those.
---
 gui/default/syncthing/core/syncthingController.js | 10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gui/default/syncthing/core/syncthingController.js b/gui/default/syncthing/core/syncthingController.js
index a681eb8bc..208cb5617 100755
--- a/gui/default/syncthing/core/syncthingController.js
+++ b/gui/default/syncthing/core/syncthingController.js
@@ -740,20 +740,12 @@ angular.module('syncthing.core')
         }
 
         function pathJoin(base, name) {
-            base = expandTilde(base);
             if (base[base.length - 1] !== $scope.system.pathSeparator) {
                 return base + $scope.system.pathSeparator + name;
             }
             return base + name;
         }
 
-        function expandTilde(path) {
-            if (path && path.trim().charAt(0) === '~') {
-                return $scope.system.tilde + path.trim().substring(1);
-            }
-            return path;
-        }
-
         function shouldSetDefaultFolderPath() {
             return $scope.config.defaults.folder.path && $scope.folderEditor.folderPath.$pristine && $scope.editingFolderNew();
         }
@@ -1988,7 +1980,7 @@ angular.module('syncthing.core')
             if (!newvalue) {
                 return;
             }
-            $scope.currentFolder.path = expandTilde(newvalue);
+            $scope.currentFolder.path = newvalue;
             $http.get(urlbase + '/system/browse', {
                 params: { current: newvalue }
             }).success(function (data) {