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From: "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [QGIT PATCH] Add safeguards to Git::userInfo()
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:28:55 +0100
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <younes@lyx.org> wrote:
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> So I guess this was set by msysgit at installation time. But I see this
> variable only at the console (after typing 'set'), I don't see it in the
> user environment variable nor in the system one. So I guess the fix would be
> for msysgit to create this entry?
>

Browsing git-config docs I would think that this variable is needed so
that git-config knows where to look for the git global configs file
that is under user $HOME directory, see the [FILES] section in git
config docs.

Thanks
Marco