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Re: [egit-dev] Relative path to HOME directory
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On 14.12.2011 00:05, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
Songpants skrev 2011-12-13 09.12:
Dear list,
I'm pretty new to the Git Universe, but managed to set Git up on my
computer. Being a great fan of portable software, I chose the
portable version of Git which needs some
tweaking with respect to also making the user's home directory
portable. However, AFAIU EGit solely relies on a specifically set
Windows HOME variable, right? Is it
possible to change that to relative path somehow (let's say taking
the directory where eclipse.exe resides as a reference point)? I
could set up a respective environment
variable in Eclipse that EGit could pick up to find HOME. That would
really be cool as that way I wouldn't have to "hard-set" HOME to the
home directory I only need when
using Git (which is on my USB drive)
Thanks for any answers!
No you cannot override that, but you could create a script that sets
HOME and launches Eclipse.
The reason is that Java has user.home point to the roaming profile,
which is usually not what one (me at least), so we override
it do be C Git compatible.
First of: thanks a lot to everyone contributing to the development of
EGit. I love open-source software and I'm aware of the level of
enthusiasm and good will developers provide in order come up with such a
software!
Then of course, the real question is: Why do you want EGit, and nobody
else, to believe HOME is a USB disk?
True. I should set up a "portable HOME" on my USB drive where all of my
settings etc. live
Yet, the main reason why I "don't like" the concept of EGit using an
explicitly set HOME: that means I have to change system setting in the
OS of the computer I'm using (i.e. setting the HOME variable in
Windows), which I might not be allowed to do in some use cases. And
that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid by running my programs off an
USB device as it "ensures" (at least to some extend) true portability.
IMHO, with EGit running as a plugin of Eclipse (which can be run as a
portable app without problems) it would be nice if it would give a user
the choice to either rely on OS's HOME variable or to look for an
Eclipse HOME variable (which would need to be set and which would point
to a user's portable HOME directory on the USB drive).
If technically possible, it'd be great if you could consider this for
future releases!
Thanks a lot,
Janko
-- robin
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