Re: [PATCH 1/3] C implementation of the 'git' program, take two.

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 16, 2005, 21:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20051116210449.GA4191@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511160316510.14820@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin, Wed, Nov 16, 2005 03:18:05 +0100:

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> > Then, you just prepend it to the PATH, with a : in between (and if the 
> > pathname has a ":" in it, tough, there's nothing we can do about it).
> 
> You mean like "c:/cygwin/git"? Yes, I know, the default is 
> "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/git", but there are people out there with ":" in their 
> pathname.
>

and you can't possibly be hinting at "\" as path element separator...

Cygwin rewrites values in PATH (well, poorly: there are things like "z:.", which admins of another stupid thing, novel netware, are so much fond of).