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fatal: $HOME not set

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JGJD Guzman <jd@jdguzman.com>
Date
Dec 11, 2008, 10:14 UTC
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This is probably a really stupid question but I'm trying to run git outside of the shell provided by msysgit. Everything works however when I try to set config options I get the error in the subject line. I would suspect this is because the windows command prompt isn't providing any information about the user's home directory. My question is would this be something that I can set manually or does git rely on the OS to provide this information?

Regards,
JD Guzman
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