{"thread":{"id":"16681","subject":"fatal: $HOME not set","startedAt":"2008-12-11T10:14:03Z","lastAt":"2008-12-11T11:09:32Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["JD Guzman","Johannes Sixt"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"97591","messageId":"003a01c95b7c$65b93a40$312baec0$@com","threadId":"16681","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"fatal: $HOME not set","fromName":"JD Guzman","fromEmail":"jd@jdguzman.com","sentAt":null,"receivedAt":"2008-12-11T10:14:03Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jd@jdguzman.com","avatar":null},"body":"This is probably a really stupid question but I'm trying to run git outside\nof the shell provided by msysgit.\nEverything works however when I try to set config options I get the error in\nthe subject line.  I would suspect this is because the windows command\nprompt isn't providing any information about the user's home directory.  My\nquestion is would this be something that I can set manually or does git rely\non the OS to provide this information?\n\nRegards,\n\nJD Guzman\n"},{"id":"97592","messageId":"4940F4EC.8070300@viscovery.net","threadId":"16681","inReplyTo":"003a01c95b7c$65b93a40$312baec0$@com","subject":"Re: fatal: $HOME not set","fromName":"Johannes Sixt","fromEmail":"j.sixt@viscovery.net","sentAt":"2008-12-11T11:09:32Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-11T11:09:32Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"j6t@kdbg.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14810926?v=4"},"body":"JD Guzman schrieb:\n> This is probably a really stupid question but I'm trying to run git outside\n> of the shell provided by msysgit.\n> Everything works however when I try to set config options I get the error in\n> the subject line.  I would suspect this is because the windows command\n> prompt isn't providing any information about the user's home directory.  My\n> question is would this be something that I can set manually or does git rely\n> on the OS to provide this information?\n\nYou can set it yourself to where you want git to store the .gitconfig\nfile. Do this in Settings->System->Advanced->Environment Variables,\nsection User variables. You can set it to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%  in order\npoint it somewhere below C:\\Documents and Settings.\n\n-- Hannes\n"}]}