{"thread":{"id":"30583","subject":"Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-sh-setup: work around Cygwin path handling gotchas","startedAt":"2012-05-21T23:51:04Z","lastAt":"2012-05-21T23:51:04Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Matt Seitz (matseitz)"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":2},"messages":[{"id":"191861","messageId":"70952A932255A2489522275A628B97C31348C4AB@xmb-sjc-233.amer.cisco.com","threadId":"30583","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-sh-setup: work around Cygwin path handling gotchas","fromName":"Matt Seitz (matseitz)","fromEmail":"matseitz@cisco.com","sentAt":"2012-05-21T23:51:04Z","receivedAt":"2012-05-21T23:51:04Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"matseitz@cisco.com","avatar":null},"body":"\"Junio C Hamano\" <gitster@pobox.com> wrote in message\nnews:<7vaa116ulx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>...\n> \n> If you _only_ allow editors that understands windows style paths, your\n> patch may make sense, but doesn't it break editors that wants only\nPOSIX\n> style paths?\n\nThe Cygwin Users' Guide says \"Using native Win32 paths in Cygwin, while\npossible, is generally inadvisable.\"\n\nhttp://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32\n\nIs this similar to the problem of line ending (POSIX lf vs. Windows\ncr-lf)?  Windows Notepad won't correctly display files with lf line\nendings, either.\nSo maybe this should be a configuration option, as with line endings?\n"}]}