• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ git --version --build-options

git version 2.24.1.windows.2
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 992f0773022527b1b0cb1e0c13aec97dd5248053
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
  • Windows 10 - 64 Bit

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.900]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

# One of the following:
> type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt

Editor Option: CustomEditor
Custom Editor Path: C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
Path Option: BashOnly
SSH Option: OpenSSH
Tortoise Option: false
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFCommitAsIs
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled
Enable Builtin Interactive Add: Disabled

• Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
  to the issue you're seeing?

In the administrative users, everything is fine, in the "non-admin" causes problems.

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

git-bash

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

**I started the git-bash like this:**
- Open `cmd` using "Run as user"
- Enter Credentials of an NON-Administrative user
- run `git-bash`
- right-click (on git-bash-title bar) -> options
- change some options
- hit "save" button

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

  • I expect it should load/save the config in my users home-dir (c:\Users\MY_USER.minttyrc)
  • I expect $HOME should be HOME=/c/Users/MY_USER
  • I expect user-.gitconfig should be loaded from "c:\Users\MY_USER"

• What actually happened instead?

  • Git bash tried to save in the dir c:\windows\system32 what is not writeable as non-admin.
  • my $HOME /c/Windows/system32
  • no user-.gitconfig was loaded (is assume because it was looking in c:\windows\system32 for a .gitconfig which doesn`t exist

• If the problem was occurring with a specific repository, can you provide the
  URL to that repository to help us with testing?

More Details:

my relevant env variables in the console BEFORE Starting git bash are

APPDATA=C:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\Roaming
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Windows\system32
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\Local
TEMP=C:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\Local\Temp
USERNAME=MY_USER
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\MY_USER

In the git-bash env shows:

USERNAME=MY_USER
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\Local
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\MY_USER
APPDATA=C:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\Roaming
HOME=/c/Windows/system32
HOMEPATH=\Windows\system32

So all variables are correct, only HOME and HOMEPATH are wrong

• I tried to manually set the HOME in first line of GIT_INSTALL_DIR\etc\profile to HOME="$(cygpath -u "$USERPROFILE")" Like suggested in https://stackoverflow.com/a/32233667/2377961
  • that results in:
    • a correct HOME - Variable, but git-bash still loads and saves config from the wrong directory
    • that users .gitconfig was loaded from "c:\Users\MY_USER" like expected
    • BUT git-bash.exe still loads and saves its config options from/to c:\windows\system32