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Bug 358742

Summary:

"Home Directory" dialog should say it is using C:\git by default

Product:

[Technology] EGit

Reporter:

Carolyn MacLeod <carolynmacleod4>

Component:

Assignee:

Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>

Status:

NEW ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

remy.suen

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
git home directory dialog	none

Description Carolyn MacLeod

2011-09-23 12:03:26 EDT

Created attachment 203918 [details]
git home directory dialog

EGit 1.2.0.201109231014 (nightly build, but problem probably exists on all)

The first time using egit on Windows, the (attached) "Home Directory" dialog opened when I switched to the Git Repositories perspective. The dialog told me that the git user config and repositories would be stored in my C:\ directory unless I go out and set the HOME environment variable. I did not want to have everything stored up in C:\ so I created a HOME environment variable and set its value to C:\GIT.

However when I went to clone a repository, the actual destination directory used was C:\GIT\git\.... which is not what I want either.

In the end, I deleted the HOME environment variable and I was happy, however the dialog should really say that it will use C:\git by default, not C:\.