how to change the location of the start directory in git bash

[Karthick Babu Sai Sankar Gupta]

Dear All,

I am very new to this git and git hub thing.

My operating system : Windows-7

used default installation

Version of Git installed : git version 2.10.0.windows.1

saisankarguptakb@W0020045 MINGW64 ~
$ pwd
/p/

When i checked the properties of git-bash

it displays like this





So instead of "P" directory, I would like to use "C:\gitprojects\git\".

Can somebody help me to get going on this ?

Thanks in advance,

regards
Karthick

[Philip Oakley]

The key part is to change your environment variables of HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH. (e.g. see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2114111/where-does-git-config-global-get-written-to/5732395#5732395 for my answer regarding the --global location, and the comments to it)

 

I presume you are in a corporate work environment with 'the management / IT department' auto setting those values to some remote server which has been mapped to "P:".

 

The question is then, what are you allowed to change, and how?

 

If you can just update that link, then change the start-in location to directly point where you want to start. But note that you'll probably have changed the location of your global config.

 

Do note that on Windows apparent location of ~ can vary depending on the git version, in particular the SDK version vs the regular download version. Some of that is just a matter of how the windows-linux directory mapping was chosen in each case.

 

 

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