Change default HOME

Git Bash is used in the example. Sometime you need to change the location of your default Git directory to locate your .ssh keys for easy access. This can be done as follows:

Via Git Bash

Use git bash to change HOME to C:\Users\ybk. You can use pwd or echo $HOME to check your current HOME directory.

pwd
setx HOME "/c/Users/ybk/"

As a reminder, this will change the HOME directory for all programs that need access to HOME directory such as Emacs, Vim etc.

Via menu options

This is for Windows user. The steps are:

• Search for Git bash
• Right click Git bash to open file location or åpne filplassering
• Explorer will be open and right click Git Bash to select Properties or Egenskaper
• At target remove --cd-to-home from "C:\Program Files\Git\git-bash.exe" --cd-to-home
• At Start in put the path of the directory you want to start in eg. C:\Users\ybk or %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% if you prefer to use HOME directory as specify in PATH. You can read it here on how to change home path or using the setx above.