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Asked: 2026-06-07T07:12:20+00:00

I’m trying to configure EGit on my portable Eclipse app. I needed then to

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I’m trying to configure EGit on my portable Eclipse app.
I needed then to install PortableGit on my USB drive as well.

After that I’m trying to reference the System Setting from the Eclipse’s Preferences.
The way that I can manage this is to set it to ‘G:\programs\PortableGit-1.7.10-preview20120409\etc\gitconfig’

The problem is that when I use this on a different system my USB might not be in G:.

Perhaps there is another way to determine Windows’ drives names by the UUID or something else, does anybody know anything about it?

Alternatively I would use a relative path. Assuming that eclipse is in ‘G:\programs\eclipse-SDK-3.7.2-win32\eclipse\eclipse.exe’ it should work with ‘..\..\PortableGit-1.7.10-preview20120409\etc\gitconfig’, right? But turns out it doesn’t. It sets itself to the full path.

I’m pretty lost here. Why is it not as simple as /media/USBdrive?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could launch Eclipse from the drive using a script that sets up PATH so the git executable is in it. Then Eclipse will find Git on startup and deduce $prefix from that.

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