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

[André Dietisheim <adietish@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robin

On 01/07/2013 08:53 PM, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> If HOME is not set, you will have a different idea than Git for Windows about
> where the global settings are stored.

So if I understand you right, EGit tries to be as intelligent/stupid as 
git for windows. IMHO that goal is fine for jgit but I'm not sure if it 
is for EGit.
In my understanding we could improve Windows users live a lot if we'd 
fallback to some sane setting (%HOMEDRIVE%/%HOMEPATH%, %USERPROFILE% or 
even java "user.home") if there's no $HOME. We'd provide them with an 
EGit that works out-of-the-box. We'd still have EGit behave like git for 
windows if the user has git installed.

Cheers
André