From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:44:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: fix "Explore Working Copy" for Windows again
Message-ID: <20100225204451.GB12637@book.hvoigt.net>
In-Reply-To: <201002250114.23322.markus.heidelberg@web.de>

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:14:22AM +0100, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> It has already been fixed in commit 454efb47 (git-gui (Win): make
> "Explore Working Copy" more robust, 2009-04-01), but has been broken in
> commit 21985a11 (git-gui: handle non-standard worktree locations,
> 2010-01-23) by accidentally replacing too much with a new variable.
> 
> The problem can be reproduced when starting git-gui from within a
> subdirectory. The solution is to convert the path name, explorer.exe is
> invoked with, to a platform native name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
> ---

I can confirm that this does fix the issue which is actually also
apparent on Windows XP. If no objections occur I would apply this to the
devel branch for msysgit.

cheers Heiko