From 8a791bd857af1ae9048b2f30993f4cd9f530b33c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deadc0de6 <info@deadc0de.ch>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:22:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix issue #54

---
 dotdrop/updater.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dotdrop/updater.py b/dotdrop/updater.py
index 74bd133..57c02c4 100644
--- a/dotdrop/updater.py
+++ b/dotdrop/updater.py
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ class Updater:
             self.log.dbg('updating {} from {}'.format(dotfile, path))
 
         right = os.path.join(self.conf.abs_dotpath(self.dotpath), dotfile.src)
+        # expands user
+        left = os.path.expanduser(left)
+        right = os.path.expanduser(right)
         # go through all files and update
         if os.path.isdir(path):
             return self._handle_dir(left, right)