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Re: Case sensitivity on Windows for absolute paths.

From
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Apr 25, 2010, 18:08 UTC
Message-ID
<201004252008.27823.j6t@kdbg.org>
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<j2y7eeb06461004250033ue4434a41j7b9a752dea1f5fe1@mail.gmail.com>
On Sonntag, 25. April 2010, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
> It would be good if git automatically uppercased the drive letter,
> yes.  However, I found the real root of my problem.  Git Bash
> (msysgit) sets the working directory to c:\foo for programs launched
> if the working directory within it is /c/foo.

I don't understand what you mean. Git Bash cannot influence whether git sees the drive letter in the working directory in uppercase or lowercase. Unless by "working directory" you mean something else than what getcwd() returns.

-- Hannes
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