From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:28:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] user-manual: Simplify the user configuration.
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901221827370.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v1vuv8dqy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> wrote:
> >> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> 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.

That's what they said when they convinced me that /home/<user>/ was not a 
natural place on Windows.

Ciao,
Dscho