JD Guzman schrieb: > This is probably a really stupid question but I'm trying to run git outside > of the shell provided by msysgit. > Everything works however when I try to set config options I get the error in > the subject line. I would suspect this is because the windows command > prompt isn't providing any information about the user's home directory. My > question is would this be something that I can set manually or does git rely > on the OS to provide this information? You can set it yourself to where you want git to store the .gitconfig file. Do this in Settings->System->Advanced->Environment Variables, section User variables. You can set it to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% in order point it somewhere below C:\Documents and Settings. -- Hannes -- 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