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How to make EGit use the same global settings as native git

I've just migrated my development environment to a new PC. For this, I copied both my Eclipse workspace and my Cygwin home directory, so that I don't have to set up my global git settings again. This worked fine for native git – all global settings are there – but not for EGit which doesn't see the global settings.

I vaguely remember that EGit does some magic to automatically detect the native git settings, but apparently that magic is not working.

So how can I (manually) configure EGit to also use the global settings from native git?

Solution

  • I just found the answer in the EGit documentation: The HOME environment variable needs to be configured to point to the Cygwin user home.

    Then, EGit will read the native settings as "User Settings":

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