From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:39:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add a Windows-specific fallback to getenv("HOME"); Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <53903B22.70507@gmail.com> Hi Karsten, On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Karsten Blees wrote: > Am 05.06.2014 10:03, schrieb Stepan Kasal: > > * even if $HOME was empty, git should setenv("HOME") so that child > processes can benefit from it (similar to TMPDIR and TERM in current > msysgit's mingw_startup()). Not setting $HOME because it may > hypothetically break child processes is a very weak argument, as we > always did set $HOME in etc/profile (since the initial version back in > 2007). I do remember that I tried that first, as I mentioned in this thread. There must have been a breakage preventing me from going that route. And in particular with your changes to Unicodify the complete environment, I am *highly* doubtful that child processes will be able to handle themselves properly, unless we spend a whole lot of time converting back and forth the environment when calling children. Ciao, Dscho -- -- *** Please reply-to-all at all times *** *** (do not pretend to know who is subscribed and who is not) *** *** Please avoid top-posting. *** The msysGit Wiki is here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki - Github accounts are free. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To post to this group, send email to msysgit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, and view previous threads, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.