{"thread":{"id":"29288","subject":"Re: git-p4 under cygwin","startedAt":"2012-01-04T08:54:45Z","lastAt":"2012-01-04T08:54:45Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Paul Chown"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"181911","messageId":"1325667285.61811.YahooMailClassic@web132101.mail.ird.yahoo.com","threadId":"29288","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Re: git-p4 under cygwin","fromName":"Paul Chown","fromEmail":"pmchown@yahoo.co.uk","sentAt":"2012-01-04T08:54:45Z","receivedAt":"2012-01-04T08:54:45Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pmchown@yahoo.co.uk","avatar":null},"body":"\nOn 1/3/12, Thomas Berg <merlin66b@gmail.com> wrote:\n> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Paul Chown <pmchown@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:\n>> Path '/cygdrive/c/work/perforce/config_test\\...' is not under client's\n>> root 'c:\\work\\perforce\\config_test'.\n>\n> Ah, sorry, I did not see this part of the error message when I first\n> replied. This does seem like a cygwin related problem. Not sure how\n> easy it is to solve. But as mentioned, msysgit works fine with git-p4.\n>\n> - Thomas\n>\n\nThanks! with msysgit it works a lot better. The 'vi' invocation failed during the submit, and I tried just about every EDITOR variation that I could think of without success, but I could workround that by setting EDITOR to use the Windows notepad.exe instead.\n\nPaul\n"}]}