From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:14:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] user-manual: Simplify the user configuration. Message-ID: <7v1vuv8dqy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530901220857q1027c05bs137dcc0244a1cc5a@mail.gmail.com> Felipe Contreras writes: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Hannu Koivisto wrote: >> Felipe Contreras writes: >> >>> This brings back my previous question: where is the home directory in >>> a Windows system? >> >> It's where %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% points to. > > I thought it was something like that. Do we want something like that > in the manual, or should we assume Windows users know that? Funny; while I was test driving Msysgit (I wrote the report in my blog pages some time ago), I got curious about this exact issue. I thought the choice of $HOME at that path was quite natural even for me who does not usually use Windows.