From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:15:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle UNC paths everywhere
Message-ID: <201001252115.52081.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <40aa078e1001251148p6263feeevc85a3223f85873@mail.gmail.com>

måndagen den 25 januari 2010 20.48.22 skrev  Erik Faye-Lund:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Robin Rosenberg
> 
> <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> wrote:
> > måndagen den 25 januari 2010 18.57.06 skrev  Erik Faye-Lund:
> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> >>
> >> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> > And even a simple "cd" with them does not work.
> >>
> >> But it does, at least for me - both in bash and cmd.exe. I just needt.
> >
> > In cmd,exe surprises me a bit. pushd \\server\share is not the same
> > as it maps a drive and then uses it to cd.
> >
> > -- robin
> 
> My guess would be that Dscho mentioned this because git internally
> does a chdir() to the path that is cloned, so currently chdir'ing must

chdir doesn't call cmd.exe and does not suffer from cmd's limitations.

-- robin