From 6b98ff92650580253d4b654cb394c1ca0af4cdd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Naman Sood <mail@nsood.in>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:20:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Node Explorer: accept subdirectories of ~ for root
 directory

Signed-off-by: Naman Sood <mail@nsood.in>
---
 src/extension.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/extension.ts b/src/extension.ts
index 3d1b805..ac1daee 100644
--- a/src/extension.ts
+++ b/src/extension.ts
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ export async function activate(context: vscode.ExtensionContext) {
           return;
         }
 
-        if (!path.isAbsolute(dir) && dir !== '~') {
+        if (!path.isAbsolute(dir) && dir !== '~' && !dir.startsWith('~/')) {
           vscode.window.showErrorMessage(`${dir} is an invalid absolute path`);
           return;
         }

From 653466f5b5854c9c6258a56117b2f869e62817c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Naman Sood <mail@nsood.in>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:47:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] expand tilde in rootDir

Signed-off-by: Naman Sood <mail@nsood.in>
---
 src/node-explorer-provider.ts | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/node-explorer-provider.ts b/src/node-explorer-provider.ts
index 98972b2..67cc8f3 100644
--- a/src/node-explorer-provider.ts
+++ b/src/node-explorer-provider.ts
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ export class NodeExplorerProvider
         const homeDir = await this.fsProvider.getHomeDirectory(element.Address);
 
         if (rootDir && rootDir !== '~') {
+          if (rootDir.startsWith('~/')) {
+            rootDir = `${homeDir}/${rootDir.slice(2)}`;
+          }
           dirDesc = trimPathPrefix(rootDir, homeDir);
         } else {
           rootDir = homeDir;