$HOME directory corruption in gitbash #4484
Description
Description
On windows using Cursor and starting a terminal with Gitbash within Cursor, something in this extension was
- changing my $HOME directory from /c/Users/fcarey to "C:\Users\fcarey"
- Corrupting my $HOME path actually be "C:\Users[Linefeed]carey"
I can't find any code in the extension here on github that's doing this explicitly, but when I uninstalled it works again and when I reinstall it, new gitbash terminals have this error once more. I don't see this error in gitbash normally (opened directly outside of Cursor.
I did sort out that \f is the linefeed character, so something is probably just reading the $USERPROFILE value and the \f in .\fcarey isn't being escaped properly. With $HOME broken, lots of things, including GIT can't find their config files and you get errors.
I don't see this issue when I start a cmd terminal from within Cursor as %HOME% doesn't exist there. I'm not sure why this extension (or perhaps something that it depends on) is even changing that environment variable in the first place?
GitLens Version
17.3.0
VS Code Version
Version: 1.2.4 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a8e95743c5268be73767c46944a71f4465d05c90
Date: 2025-07-10T17:09:01.383Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
Git Version
git version 2.39.0.windows.2
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