Re: [egit-dev] Why is EGit not falling back to HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH or use

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> 
> Hi!
> 
> A user lately reported problems when HOME environment variable was
> not set on his Windows box:
> https://community.jboss.org/message/784626
> He finally found out about the required steps to set the HOME env
> variable in
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Setting_up_the_Home_Directory_on_Windows
> 
> I'm wonderingwhy EGit would not simply fall back to Windows env
> variables (HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH or USERPROFILE) or even java
> "user.home".
> I bet there are reasons for insiting on HOME, but I miss them. I'd
> appreciate any insights a lot.

If HOME is not set, you will have a different idea than Git for Windows about
where the global settings are stored.

-- robin