From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:48:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle double slashes in make_relative_path()
Message-ID: <201001231448.42721.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <201001231409.30706.j6t@kdbg.org>

lördagen den 23 januari 2010 14.09.29 skrev  Johannes Sixt:
> On Samstag, 23. Januar 2010, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> > It seems this function does something unhealthy when you pass a path of
> > the form //server/share. On windows dropping the double // at the
> > beginning makes it a different path since // is the UNC prefix.
> 
> There is no problem in practice.
> 
> The function returns either the input unmodified, or it strips also at
>  least one directory component, except when base is only "/" (or "//" or
>  "///"...). I said in practice, because on Windows it does not make sense
>  to invoke git with (literally)
> 
>    git --git-dir=//server/share/repo.git --work-tree=/ ...
> 
> i.e., without a drive prefix before the slash of --work-tree.

Why not? //foo/bar/z is just as valid and useful a path as x:/z. 

Defining a drive-letter with msysgit is tricky because I have to find one that 
is available and then also restart every msys bash instance to make msys
see it.

-- robin