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| author | Alejandro Barreto <alejandro.barreto@ni.com> | 2024-12-09 19:18:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-12-10 08:47:55 +0900 |
| commit | 8525e928868757c2ebce3859dae0a9fd0f9ac9fd (patch) | |
| tree | aae825d5530fd33342c290ba7eabebbf36117d5a | |
| parent | Git 2.47.1 (diff) | |
| download | git-8525e928868757c2ebce3859dae0a9fd0f9ac9fd.tar.gz git-8525e928868757c2ebce3859dae0a9fd0f9ac9fd.zip | |
Document HOME environment variable
Git documentation refers to $HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME often, but does
not specify how or where these values come from on Windows where neither
is set by default. The new documentation reflects the behavior of
setup_windows_environment() in compat/mingw.c.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Barreto <alejandro.barreto@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 8 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index d15a869762..47509c9e1a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -477,6 +477,14 @@ their values the same way as Boolean valued configuration variables, e.g. Here are the variables: +System +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +`HOME`:: + Specifies the path to the user's home directory. On Windows, if + unset, Git will set a process environment variable equal to: + `$HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH` if both `$HOMEDRIVE` and `$HOMEPATH` exist; + otherwise `$USERPROFILE` if `$USERPROFILE` exists. + The Git Repository ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ These environment variables apply to 'all' core Git commands. Nb: it |