From: Alex Riesen Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:04:49 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] C implementation of the 'git' program, take two. Message-ID: <20051116210449.GA4191@steel.home> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin, Wed, Nov 16, 2005 03:18:05 +0100: > > 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).