Change User location(home variable) in Egit (Eclipse)

Question

I use Eclipse Indigo and Windows 7 and plugin egit/jgit for Eclipse.

How to change user location in egit? I should do it, because it contains special characters, which d

Answer 1

Git reads the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable to find the users git config (see http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config) but unfortunately JGit doesn't look at it.

I've raised a bug here: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=430194

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