push failure on domain-connected machine

When pushing an existing local repo to a new remote repo, git 2.6.3 misidentifies the user's home directory on a domain-connected Windows machine. My machine is running Win7-64 and I have tried both the 32-bit and 64-bit version of git. For example, the following sequence fails on the last command

Unhelpful shortcut parameters for git bash

When creating shortcuts for git bash on Windows machines, the "Target" contains the command "C:\PF\Git\git-bash.exe --cd-to-home" and the "Start In" field contains %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%. This is redundant, and makes it harder to modify the shortcut to start bash in the user's directory of choice.