Hi kusma, On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > The problem arises whenever git.exe calls subprocesses. You can pollute > the environment by setting HOME, I do not recall the details, but I > remember that we had to be very careful *not* to do that, hence the patch. > Sorry, has been a long time. Actually, a quick search in my Applegate vaults^W^Wmail archives suggests that we had tons of troubles with non-ASCII characters in the path. Given that none of us really has time to recreate the problems, or to take care of them if there arises a new problem due to setting the HOME variable again (remember: while we have UTF-8 support in Git, thanks to Karsten's tireless efforts, and while that seems to fix the biggest bugs for us, other MinGW software does not have that luxury and will continue to barf on non-ASCII characters in the HOME variable), I would be strongly in favor of fixing the problem by the root: avoiding to have Git rely on the HOME environment variable to be set, but instead add a clean API call that even says what it is supposed to do: gimme the user's home directory's path. And that is exactly what the patch does. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html