1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/modules/util/path.go b/modules/util/path.go
index f4acf92ba9..ed7cc62699 100644
--- a/modules/util/path.go
+++ b/modules/util/path.go
@@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ func StatDir(rootPath string, includeDir ...bool) ([]string, error) {
 	return statDir(rootPath, "", isIncludeDir, false, false)
 }
 
+func isOSWindows() bool {
+	return runtime.GOOS == "windows"
+}
+
 // FileURLToPath extracts the path information from a file://... url.
 func FileURLToPath(u *url.URL) (string, error) {
 	if u.Scheme != "file" {
@@ -162,7 +166,7 @@ func FileURLToPath(u *url.URL) (string, error) {
 
 	path := u.Path
 
-	if runtime.GOOS != "windows" {
+	if !isOSWindows() {
 		return path, nil
 	}
 
@@ -173,3 +177,24 @@ func FileURLToPath(u *url.URL) (string, error) {
 	}
 	return path, nil
 }
+
+// HomeDir returns path of '~'(in Linux) on Windows,
+// it returns error when the variable does not exist.
+func HomeDir() (home string, err error) {
+	// TODO: some users run Gitea with mismatched uid  and "HOME=xxx" (they set HOME=xxx by environment manually)
+	// so at the moment we can not use `user.Current().HomeDir`
+	if isOSWindows() {
+		home = os.Getenv("USERPROFILE")
+		if home == "" {
+			home = os.Getenv("HOMEDRIVE") + os.Getenv("HOMEPATH")
+		}
+	} else {
+		home = os.Getenv("HOME")
+	}
+
+	if home == "" {
+		return "", errors.New("cannot get home directory")
+	}
+
+	return home, nil
+}