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Re: git-p4 under cygwin

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PCPaul Chown <pmchown@yahoo.co.uk>
Date
Jan 4, 2012, 08:54 UTC
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On 1/3/12, Thomas Berg <merlin66b@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Paul Chown <pmchown@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Path '/cygdrive/c/work/perforce/config_test\...' is not under client's
>> root 'c:\work\perforce\config_test'.
>
> Ah, sorry, I did not see this part of the error message when I first
> replied. This does seem like a cygwin related problem. Not sure how
> easy it is to solve. But as mentioned, msysgit works fine with git-p4.
>
> - Thomas
>
Thanks! 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.
Paul
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  1. Paul ChownJan 4, 2012

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