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Document how $HOME is set on Windows
Git documentation refers to $HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME often, but does not specify how or where these values come from on Windows where neither is set by default. The new documentation reflects the behavior of setup_windows_environment() in compat/mingw.c. Signed-off-by: Alejandro Barreto <[email protected]>
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Various Git commands use the following environment variables:
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System
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`HOME`::
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Specifies the path to the user's home directory. On Windows, if
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unset, Git will set a process environment variable equal to:
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`$HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH` if both `$HOMEDRIVE` and `$HOMEPATH` exist;
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otherwise `$USERPROFILE` if `$USERPROFILE` exists.
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The Git Repository
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These environment variables apply to 'all' core Git commands. Nb: it

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