added os.path.expanduser to the repo initialization

Author: apollo13

lib/git/repo.py

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ def __init__(self, path=None):
         Returns
             ``GitPython.Repo``
         """
+        path = os.path.expanduser(path)
         if not os.path.exists(path):
             raise NoSuchPathError(path)