From: Paul Chown <pmchown@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:54:45 GMT
Subject: Re: git-p4 under cygwin
Message-ID: <1325667285.61811.YahooMailClassic@web132101.mail.ird.yahoo.com>


On 1/3/12, Thomas Berg <merlin66b@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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