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Document HOME environment variable 

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 <alejandro.barreto@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Alejandro Barreto 2024-12-09 19:18:14 +00:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -477,6 +477,14 @@ their values the same way as Boolean valued configuration variables, e.g.

Here are the variables:

System
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`HOME`::
Specifies the path to the user's home directory. On Windows, if
unset, Git will set a process environment variable equal to:
`$HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH` if both `$HOMEDRIVE` and `$HOMEPATH` exist;
otherwise `$USERPROFILE` if `$USERPROFILE` exists.

The Git Repository
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These environment variables apply to 'all' core Git commands. Nb: it