From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 123292 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2018 00:15:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 123050 invoked by uid 89); 23 Mar 2018 00:15:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 spammy=impression X-HELO: mail-wm0-f43.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f43.google.com) (74.125.82.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:15:08 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id 139so662593wmn.2 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:15:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=kKFjUvV00ooYQ9CI2jVaU+HlohMMBKUb2vvvjKebYk4=; b=SEg1c1hB46qD54m7rZYwamar37BN03CmcHyb8b6XKC5NsnLcPZWADikHfSkkAzxNMs iVfTHYi07kP7NjQnsCbPMq3xDIG7NjaGBJYDSzL3L1UKUFMkHntPjWEwTuSPfTpxjTYg 2+6Hm0PTf/Z4jPaiNyc0ip76YpQGS5yqh9iDlxfOlGTTtbQ4ryrxxkWYdO83H948puLA TnNnX/SEmVHFCOxvMoqMpQa+l/c4GNPwMZ7Z28jVUjQ459KuShAT9WqOqrnAsIcFi7y5 IEeEKqJ2aB+5ov44tUk1TftSHpT0Z6edJjG9+kjD/XqvRg3UsZ9KLE5fEmAEtuIsa2R6 cAxw== X-Gm-Message-State: AElRT7FA5MlIDRVVgFTIVEkwH0aQV1dAtWMjjNqfEcIlvoGlF1ASWaFF PO1FIeCMRbHsxLbLh2R9PJwB2uCN7GlZh1+6CAM= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELuMaYOUpFW8gtjNP+RH/CgiD67bUM44iALJ+TNBCrySisKtYcUhY9NczoQZK8WBTQBYkd9wwUyv4FKA3ZDABlM= X-Received: by 10.80.191.4 with SMTP id f4mr27338905edk.224.1521764106100; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:15:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.80.157.205 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:15:05 -0700 (PDT) From: David Karr Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Issues with setting or not setting HOME environment variable To: The Cygwin Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00368.txt.bz2 I currently do not set the HOME environment variable. I get the impression you're not supposed to do that. When I run a mintty shell, it correctly puts me in "/home/", which is what I want. I'm running into a problem with Eclipse egit, as I think it's looking for the "HOME" environment variable to determine where the .gitconfig file is. If it doesn't find "HOME" set, I have a feeling it's looking for "HOMEDRIVE", which is set to something I can't easily control. Is there some way I can set "HOME" to my Windows home location, but still have Cygwin do the right thing and go to "/home/"? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple