Re: [msysGit] Re: [PATCH] Add a Windows-specific fallback to getenv("HOME");

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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Stepan Kasal <kasal@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ char *git_path(const char *fmt, ...)
>>  void home_config_paths(char **global, char **xdg, char *file)
>>  {
>>         char *xdg_home = getenv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME");
>> -       char *home = getenv("HOME");
>> +       const char *home = get_home_directory();
>>         char *to_free = NULL;
>>
>>         if (!home) {
>
> Just checking. Instead of replace the call sites, can we check and
> setenv("HOME") if it's missing instead? MinGW port already replaces
> main(). Extra initialization should not be a problem. I feel
> "getenv("HOME")" a tiny bit more familiar than get_home_directory(),
> but that's really weak argument as the number of call sites has not
> increased in 4 years.

Yeah. But we already set %HOME% to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% in
/etc/profile, git-cmd.bat, gitk.cmd *and* git-wrapper... Do we really
need one more place?

It seems some of these could be dropped...
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