This is probably a really stupid question but I'm trying to run git outside of the shell provided by msysgit. Everything works however when I try to set config options I get the error in the subject line. I would suspect this is because the windows command prompt isn't providing any information about the user's home directory. My question is would this be something that I can set manually or does git rely on the OS to provide this information?
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JD Guzman
Johannes SixtRe: fatal: $HOME not set
JD Guzman schrieb:
> This is probably a really stupid question but I'm trying to run git outside > of the shell provided by msysgit. > Everything works however when I try to set config options I get the error in > the subject line. I would suspect this is because the windows command > prompt isn't providing any information about the user's home directory. My > question is would this be something that I can set manually or does git rely > on the OS to provide this information?
You can set it yourself to where you want git to store the .gitconfig file. Do this in Settings->System->Advanced->Environment Variables, section User variables. You can set it to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% in order point it somewhere below C:\Documents and Settings.
-- Hannes