Greetings, David Karr!
> 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/"?
It's not Cygwin, it's bash setting HOME when run as login shell.
If you wish, you can force that setting in ~/.profile or otherwise manipulate
the environment prior to starting mintty.
I, for one, prefer my $HOME match my real profile home. Don't see the reason
to spread my stuff thin across the filesystem.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:57:18
Sorry for my terrible english...
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