And because it's default is the home directory, i always set that path to my folder, where all Git repositories are and should be located. I don't clone them into the workspace because of some bugs with m2eclipse. Nevertheless what the default is, i think, we should either respect and use that option wherever it's possible, or remove it. If there is that option, and some part of EGit uses it, and other parts don't use it, it would be confusing for the users, and that's something we should avoid.