Re: [egit-dev] Why is EGit not falling back to HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH or use

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Ursprungligt meddelande -----
> Hi Robin
> 
> On 01/07/2013 08:53 PM, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> > If HOME is not set, you will have a different idea than Git for
> > Windows about
> > where the global settings are stored.
> 
> So if I understand you right, EGit tries to be as intelligent/stupid
> as
> git for windows. IMHO that goal is fine for jgit but I'm not sure if
> it
> is for EGit.

It's not about being intelligent, it's about having the same idea of
where common settings are stored.

> In my understanding we could improve Windows users live a lot if we'd
> fallback to some sane setting (%HOMEDRIVE%/%HOMEPATH%, %USERPROFILE%
> or
> even java "user.home") if there's no $HOME. 

We do. It's just a warning.

> We'd provide them with an
> EGit that works out-of-the-box. We'd still have EGit behave like git
> for
> windows if the user has git installed.

I don't get that. What's the problem, besides the actual warning itself?

-- robin