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[Adarma]

Every time i commit I get the following message in the panel:

[branch abcdef] Commit Message
Committer: MyName my.email@my.domain.com
Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly. Run the
following command and follow the instructions in your editor to edit
your configuration file:

git config --global --edit

After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:

git commit --amend --reset-author

2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

I have my [user] name and [user] email set in the global config correctly.
I don't get the message if I commit from the command line.

I can see from git log the different name and email depending on if I commit via the commandline or the sublime-text-git

Could it be because my home folder is set to H: drive (H:.gitconfig)?

[mkuurstra]

The cause of this is in "git/init.py" Currently on line 199 - 205:

            env = os.environ.copy()

            shell = False
            if sublime.platform() == 'windows':
                shell = True
                if 'HOME' not in env:
                    env[str('HOME')] = str(env['USERPROFILE'])

I'm not sure what this is a workaround for as without "HOME" it works fine. Setting HOME to HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH works much better for me.

I've currently worked around this issue by manually setting the "HOME" variable

[kemayo]

At least according to Microsoft's docs, USERPROFILE should be the same thing as HOMEDRIVE+HOMEPATH...

[mosbasik]

My home folder is on the U: drive. Checking my environment variables with Git Bash shows this:

$ env | grep HOME
HOMEPATH=\
HOME=/u/
HOMEDRIVE=U:

and:

$ env | grep USERPROFILE
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\<username redacted>

so I think the Microsoft docs might be incorrect. My gitconfig with name and email are in U:\.gitconfig (or /u/.gitconfig depending on which shell you ask), and just like OP, any commits I make from the terminal are able to use that config just fine (likely because Git Bash is using its own variable HOME).

It looks like @marvink87 has submitted a PR (#502) that would fix my issue as well - I'd love to see it accepted! (Thanks marvin!)

[mosbasik]

As a workaround in the meantime, I ended up symlinking .gitconfig and .ssh/ to where the extension expects them to be. Maybe this will help someone else looking:

1. Open cmd.exe as an administrator (several ways to do this, one is Windows-X and select Command Prompt (Admin)

2. Run these commands. Note that mklink's argument order is mklink [LINK] [TARGET], which the reverse of ln argument order if you're more familiar with that. Also note that my "true" home folder that I thought of as being on U: is actually mapped to a network share - so I needed to put in the actual path, not U:

    mklink C:\Users\<username>\.gitignore \\network.share.domain\folder\folder\.gitignore
    mklink /D C:\Users\<username>\.ssh \\network.share.domain\folder\folder\.ssh