From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Conflict between Eclipse JGit and Cygwin HOME
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 04:03:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528226091.20200317040308@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA5t8Vo_B+yAwTkUsHFFM1oXo8ntvXduyG-ua-H7oGyenTm=ng@mail.gmail.com>
Greetings, David Karr!
> I've been running Cygwin on my Windows 10 laptop for quite a while. I use
> git in Eclipse and in the shell.
> What I'm describing isn't really a bug with Cygwin, but it breaks because
> of the interaction with Cygwin, and I'm trying to find out a reasonable way
> to fix this.
> Over the weekend, I upgraded Windows 10 from 1709 to 1809. Somehow after
> that I have messed up how git is used in Eclipse.
> The Eclipse JGit framework figures out where my git config is by checking
> things in the following order:
> - 1. %HOME% if set,
> - 2. %HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%, if %HOMEDRIVE% is set,
> - 3. %HOMESHARE% if set,
> - 4. Java system property "user.home".
> The HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, and HOMESHARE variables are set by my work
> infrastructure, and I appear to have no control over them. The resulting
> %HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH% doesn't even exist.
It should, that's nonsense. File an issue with your infrastructure team.
> The HOME variable is set by Cygwin, apparently.
No, it only set HOME if it is not set yet, and even then only for login
shells.
> It is set to "/home/<myuid>".
What "myid" is supposed to mean? HOME is set to /home/$USER by default, but
can be overridden with proper nsswitch configuration.
> I'm guessing that JGit looks at that and can't do
> anything with it, so it goes down the list and doesn't find anything
> useful. I end up with bad git config values.
Just install Git for Windows, but don't add it to %PATH% in any way, shape or
form. Then configure Eclipse to use that git instead of Cygwin one.
> The workaround I've figured out is a batch file that sets HOME to the
> expected Windows HOME, and then executes its command-line parameters. I
> changed the target property in the Eclipse shortcut to add the full path to
> this batch file at the front of the command line, and then I have to find
> the eclipse.exe file and get the desktop icon from it. I'll have to do
> this every time I install a new Eclipse distribution.
Start by solving the issue from its head.
Fix your %HOMEDRIVE%/%HOMEPATH%/%HOMESHARE%, configure your nsswitch to point
to an existing profile path.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 3:59:16
Sorry for my terrible english...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-17 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-17 0:23 David Karr
2020-03-17 1:03 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2020-03-17 6:19 ` Brian Inglis
2020-03-17 13:45 ` David Karr
2020-03-17 20:55 ` Brian Inglis
2020-03-17 20:55 ` Andrey Repin
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