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. The HOME variable is set by Cygwin, apparently. It is set to "/home/<myuid>". 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. 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. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple