[PATCH v2] Add a Windows-specific fallback to getenv("HOME");

From: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Date: Jun 5, 2014, 08:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20140605080317.GA28029@camelia.ucw.cz>
In-Reply-To: <538FCAF5.7030102@gmail.com>

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 00:41:33 +0200

If HOME is not set, use $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
---

Hello Karsten, thanks for your explanation. There are more things to be done, but I hope you can ack this patch as a step forward.

Hello Dscho, I hope you can ack this as well: it is basically equivalent with your patch, tailored according to current upstream fashion, ;-)

Stepan

 compat/mingw.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index a0e13bc..e108388 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -1181,6 +1181,11 @@ char *mingw_getenv(const char *name)
 		if (!result)
 			result = getenv_cs("TEMP");
 	}
+	if (!result && !strcmp(name, "HOME")) {
+		struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+		strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s%s", getenv_cs("HOMEDRIVE"), getenv_cs("HOMEPATH"));
+		result = strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
+	}
 	return result;
 }

-- 
2.0.0.9635.g0be03cb

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