From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] user-manual: Simplify the user configuration. Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:14:13 -0800 Message-ID: <7v1vuv8dqy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1232561365-5919-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <7v8wp4e5wn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <94a0d4530901211319t8126611wc1437848631fe988@mail.gmail.com> <831vuvfh7t.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> <94a0d4530901220857q1027c05bs137dcc0244a1cc5a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Hannu Koivisto , git@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 22 18:16:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LQ39f-0000Y9-AD for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:15:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754399AbZAVROV (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:14:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754062AbZAVROV (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:14:21 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:35349 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753863AbZAVROV (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:14:21 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B856E92AD2; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:14:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5AA3392ABD; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:14:15 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530901220857q1027c05bs137dcc0244a1cc5a@mail.gmail.com> (Felipe Contreras's message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:57:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 1B13EF3A-E8A8-11DD-95C0-5720C92D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Felipe Contreras writes: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Hannu Koivisto wrote: >> Felipe Contreras writes: >> >>> This brings back my previous question: where is the home directory in >>> a Windows system? >> >> It's where %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% points to. > > I thought it was something like that. Do we want something like that > in the manual, or should we assume Windows users know that? Funny; while I was test driving Msysgit (I wrote the report in my blog pages some time ago), I got curious about this exact issue. I thought the choice of $HOME at that path was quite natural even for me who does not usually use Windows.