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

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Hi Erik,

On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> 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...

No. Git is not always called through Bash or the git-wrapper,
unfortunately.

Ciao,
Dscho
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