[PATCH v5 1/3] Allow deriving the current user's home directory via the HOME variable
Johannes Schindelin
Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
Tue Apr 4 15:12:09 GMT 2023
Hi Corinna,
On Mon, 3 Apr 2023, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 3 16:44, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > This patch hails from Git for Windows (where the Cygwin runtime is used
> > in the form of a slightly modified MSYS2 runtime), where it is a
> > well-established technique to let the `$HOME` variable define where the
> > current user's home directory is, falling back to `$HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH`
> > and `$USERPROFILE`.
>
> This patch is already merged.
Yes, I am sorry, I wanted to keep this in the patch series for
completeness' sake and also to make backporting to Git for Windows' MSYS2
runtime easier. That's why it is a part of v6, too.
Ciao,
Johannes
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