As you can see in the picture, eclipse is searching the user space .gitconfig in the specified location. I have my .gitconfig in another location though. Unfortunately the Location textbox is not editable and the Open button will not let me choose a file either.
How can I force Eclipse to use my specific file in the specific location?
I noticed a problem like this in our enterprise. We don't have "HOME" set in Windows, and because of that eGit makes a bad guess about where "HOME" should be.
My workaround was to write the following very short batch file, called "runwithhome.cmd":
We do have "USERNAME" properly set in our environment, so that works. I then changed the Eclipse shortcut so that the absolute path to this batch file, followed by a space, was put at the beginning of the "Target" command line.
Your situation is different, but it should be obvious how to customize this to your situation.