Greetings, David Karr! > I've been running Cygwin on my Windows 10 laptop for quite a while. I use > git in Eclipse and in the shell.
> What I'm describing isn't really a bug with Cygwin, but it breaks because > of the interaction with Cygwin, and I'm trying to find out a reasonable way > to fix this. > Over the weekend, I upgraded Windows 10 from 1709 to 1809. Somehow after > that I have messed up how git is used in Eclipse. > The Eclipse JGit framework figures out where my git config is by checking > things in the following order: > - 1. %HOME% if set, > - 2. %HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%, if %HOMEDRIVE% is set, > - 3. %HOMESHARE% if set, > - 4. Java system property "user.home". > The HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, and HOMESHARE variables are set by my work > infrastructure, and I appear to have no control over them. The resulting > %HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH% doesn't even exist. It should, that's nonsense. File an issue with your infrastructure team. > The HOME variable is set by Cygwin, apparently. No, it only set HOME if it is not set yet, and even then only for login shells. > It is set to "/home/<myuid>". What "myid" is supposed to mean? HOME is set to /home/$USER by default, but can be overridden with proper nsswitch configuration. > I'm guessing that JGit looks at that and can't do > anything with it, so it goes down the list and doesn't find anything > useful. I end up with bad git config values. Just install Git for Windows, but don't add it to %PATH% in any way, shape or form. Then configure Eclipse to use that git instead of Cygwin one. > The workaround I've figured out is a batch file that sets HOME to the > expected Windows HOME, and then executes its command-line parameters. I > changed the target property in the Eclipse shortcut to add the full path to > this batch file at the front of the command line, and then I have to find > the eclipse.exe file and get the desktop icon from it. I'll have to do > this every time I install a new Eclipse distribution. Start by solving the issue from its head. Fix your %HOMEDRIVE%/%HOMEPATH%/%HOMESHARE%, configure your nsswitch to point to an existing profile path. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, March 17, 2020 3:59:16 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
