[PATCH v5 1/3] Allow deriving the current user's home directory via the HOME variable

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Apr 3 18:36:34 GMT 2023


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.


Corinna


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