Guard tries to watch entire home directory when confronted with a directory called ~

[rhys-vdw]

I somehow (typo probably) created a read-only directory called ~ in the root of my project.

-> ls -la | grep '~'
drwx------     3 root  staff        102 18 Aug 11:03 ~

I did not have permission to open this directory (and therefore nor did Guard). I became aware of this directory because when I started Guard it would start recursing through my home directory and complaining that other files were currently being watched (outside of the project directory).

The project/~ dir was not a symlink, so I suspect that maybe guard is not using an absolute path to the directory it's trying to watch and ends up watching ~ instead of ./~. Otherwise I'd have expected to see a permission error rather than it recursing through my home folder.