From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:04:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle UNC paths everywhere
Message-ID: <201001252104.10328.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001251553150.8733@intel-tinevez-2-302>

måndagen den 25 januari 2010 18.34.01 skrev  Johannes Schindelin:
> I am also not quite sure if you can get away with having the same offset
> for both: if I have "C:\blah" and strip off "C:", I always have a
> directory separator to bounce against, whereas I do not have that if I
> strip off the two "\\" of a UNC path.  Besides, I maintain that the host
> name, and maybe even the share name, should not ever be stripped off!

Advices needed:

d:somedir (when cwd=d:\msysgit, == /) may be tricky to fix.
Msysgit seems confused by the syntax and treats it as d:\ 

roro@SIENA / (master)
$ cmd
Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

D:\msysgit>exit

roro@SIENA / (master)
$ mkdir d:x
mkdir: cannot create directory `d:x': File exist

roro@SIENA / (master)
$ cd d:x

roro@SIENA /d
$ ls -l x
ls: x: No such file or directory

roro@SIENA /d
$

From that I think that even if we try to make git handle d:path, msys
will break regardless. We can fix truly absolute and normal relative paths.

-- robin