From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:28:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [QGIT PATCH] Add safeguards to Git::userInfo()
Message-ID: <e5bfff550810071128r41634ac3r947c194f3749f9ca@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48EBA854.1020205@lyx.org>

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <younes@lyx.org> wrote:
>
> So I guess this was set by msysgit at installation time. But I see this
> variable only at the console (after typing 'set'), I don't see it in the
> user environment variable nor in the system one. So I guess the fix would be
> for msysgit to create this entry?
>

Browsing git-config docs I would think that this variable is needed so
that git-config knows where to look for the git global configs file
that is under user $HOME directory, see the [FILES] section in git
config docs.

Thanks
Marco