From: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe•net>
To: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail•com>
Cc: kusmabite@gmail•com, GIT Mailing-list <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Location of git config on Windows
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:14:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ygflhqlvni7.fsf@corbe.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53F135F8.60508@gmail.com> (Karsten Blees's message of "Mon, 18 Aug 2014 01:08:40 +0200")
Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail•com> writes:
> Am 18.08.2014 00:01, schrieb Erik Faye-Lund:
>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe•net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I installed git on my Windows machine while it was connected to my
>>> corporate network. It picked up on that fact and used a mapped drive to
>>> store its configuration file.
>>>
>>> As a result, I cannot currently use git when disconnected from my
>>> network. It throws the following error message: fatal: unable to access
>>> 'Z:\/.config/git/config': Invalid argument
>>>
>>> Obviously this value is stored in the registry somewhere because I made
>>> an attempt to uninstall and reinstall git with the same results.
>>>
>>> Can someone give me some guidance here?
>>
>> Git looks for the per-user configuration in $HOME/.gitconfig, and if
>> $HOME is not set, it falls back to $HOMEDIR/$HOMEPATH/.gitconfig. My
>> guess would be some of these environment variables are incorrectly set
>> on your system.
>
> To be precise, git checks if %HOME% is set _and_ the directory exists before
> falling back to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%.
>
> If %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% isn't set or the directory doesn't exist either, it
> falls back to %USERPROFILE%, which is always local (C:/Users/<yourname>), even
> if disconnected from the network (at least that's how its supposed to be).
>
>
Awesome! Thanks for the advice.
%HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% are indeed set by my system and point to an
(often disconnected) network drive. I manually forced %HOME% to
%USERPROFILE% and it works like a charm now.
I would argue that on Windows %USERPROFILE% should be checked first (or
at least after %HOME%).
Best,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-18 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-17 20:18 Location of git config on Windows Daniel Corbe
2014-08-17 21:40 ` Jason Pyeron
2014-08-17 22:01 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-08-17 23:08 ` Karsten Blees
2014-08-18 15:14 ` Daniel Corbe [this message]
2014-08-18 15:25 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-08-18 15:40 ` Daniel Corbe
2014-08-18 15:47 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-08-18 15:51 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-08-18 17:05 ` Daniel Corbe
2014-08-18 18:17 ` Erik Faye-Lund
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