From 31598ca8ef54a55117cd84d6e4578973d8c5f1cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruoyu Zhong <zhongruoyu@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:29:06 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] diagnostic: improve tilde expansion logic

This is a bit pedantic, but the tilde expansion only occurs if the tilde
is at the beginning of the string (if we only take the current user into
account) [1].

[1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_19_06_01
---
 Library/Homebrew/diagnostic.rb | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/diagnostic.rb b/Library/Homebrew/diagnostic.rb
index 01aa5d7465..b3493664d9 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/diagnostic.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/diagnostic.rb
@@ -84,7 +84,12 @@ module Homebrew
 
       sig { params(path: String).returns(String) }
       def user_tilde(path)
-        path.gsub(Dir.home, "~")
+        home = Dir.home
+        if path == home
+          "~"
+        else
+          path.gsub(%r{^#{home}/}, "~/")
+        end
       end
 
       sig { returns(T.nilable(String)) }