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

From
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Date
Jun 5, 2014, 12:15 UTC
Message-ID
<20140605121521.GA28894@camelia.ucw.cz>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.DEB.1.00.1406051354000.14982@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 02:03:39PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Render me even more convinced that the API call is the cleanest way to go,
But not me.  
In a paralel post, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> Thank you for working on pushing msysgit patches upstream. I don't use
> git on windows, but it's nice to see all windows-specific changes in
> one code base so we can try to workaround it when new patches/features
> are developed.

... but we should not obscure that more than necessary. If the API call is getenv("HOME"); it helps. And the hack with mingw_getenv() is not that bad, so we should be pragmatic and accept it.

Stepan
Previous: Johannes SchindelinNext: Karsten Blees
Message 28 of 31 in “Add a Windows-specific fallback to getenv("HOME");”
  1. Add a Windows-specific fallback to getenv("HOME");Stepan Kasal, Jun 4, 2014
  2. Duy NguyenJun 4, 2014
  3. Erik Faye-LundJun 4, 2014
  4. Karsten BleesJun 4, 2014
  5. Johannes SchindelinJun 4, 2014
  6. Erik Faye-LundJun 4, 2014
  7. Johannes SchindelinJun 4, 2014
  8. Stepan KasalJun 4, 2014
  9. Johannes SchindelinJun 4, 2014
  10. Stepan KasalJun 4, 2014
  11. Johannes SchindelinJun 4, 2014
  12. Git for Windows SDKPhilip Oakley, Jun 6, 2014
  13. Duy NguyenJun 4, 2014
  14. Sebastian SchuberthJun 6, 2014
  15. Johannes SchindelinJun 4, 2014
  16. Karsten BleesJun 5, 2014
  17. Add a Windows-specific fallback to getenv("HOME");Stepan Kasal, Jun 5, 2014
  18. Torsten BögershausenJun 5, 2014
  19. Add a Windows-specific fallback to getenv("HOME");Stepan Kasal, Jun 5, 2014
  20. Karsten BleesJun 5, 2014
  21. Erik Faye-LundJun 5, 2014
  22. Karsten BleesJun 5, 2014
  23. Stepan KasalJun 6, 2014
  24. Stepan KasalJun 5, 2014
  25. Johannes SchindelinJun 5, 2014
  26. Karsten BleesJun 5, 2014
  27. Johannes SchindelinJun 5, 2014
  28. Stepan KasalJun 5, 2014
  29. Karsten BleesJun 5, 2014
  30. Stepan KasalJun 4, 2014
  31. Johannes SchindelinJun 4, 2014

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