From 2c44d131503d11839c33ec38daaabbb0f58514d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ahmet Alp Balkan <ahmetb@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 10:18:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Export $HOME lookup to pkg/homedir

Signed-off-by: Ahmet Alp Balkan <ahmetb@microsoft.com>
---
 homedir/MAINTAINERS     |  1 +
 homedir/homedir.go      | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 homedir/homedir_test.go | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 homedir/MAINTAINERS
 create mode 100644 homedir/homedir.go
 create mode 100644 homedir/homedir_test.go

diff --git a/homedir/MAINTAINERS b/homedir/MAINTAINERS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82733b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/homedir/MAINTAINERS
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Ahmet Alp Balkan <ahmetalpbalkan@gmail.com> (@ahmetalpbalkan)
diff --git a/homedir/homedir.go b/homedir/homedir.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f0246e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/homedir/homedir.go
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package homedir
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"runtime"
+)
+
+// Get returns the home directory of the current user with the help of
+// environment variables depending on the target operating system.
+// Returned path should be used with "path/filepath" to form new paths.
+func Get() string {
+	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
+		return os.Getenv("USERPROFILE")
+	}
+	return os.Getenv("HOME")
+}
diff --git a/homedir/homedir_test.go b/homedir/homedir_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b89cbf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/homedir/homedir_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package homedir
+
+import (
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestGet(t *testing.T) {
+	home := Get()
+	if home == "" {
+		t.Fatal("returned home directory is empty")
+	}
+
+	if !filepath.IsAbs(home) {
+		t.Fatalf("returned path is not absolute: %s", home)
+	}
+}