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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`. The idea is that we want to share user-specific settings between programs, whether they be Cygwin, MSYS2 or not. Unfortunately, we cannot blindly activate the "db_home: windows" setting because in some setups, the user's home directory is set to a hidden directory via an UNC path (\\share\some\hidden\folder$) -- something many programs cannot handle correctly, e.g. `cmd.exe` and other native Windows applications that users want to employ as Git helpers. The established technique is to allow setting the user's home directory via the environment variables mentioned above: `$HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH` or `$USERPROFILE`. This has the additional advantage that it is much faster than querying the Windows user database. Of course this scheme needs to be opt-in. For that reason, it needs to be activated explicitly via `db_home: env` in `/etc/nsswitch.conf`. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> |
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