From: Houder <houder@xs4all.nl>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:01:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1/RFC 1/1] 'git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again)
Message-ID: <327181b03df8abfd7194389c9bc21256@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1811280944520.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On 2018-11-28 09:46, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi J.H.,
> 
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, J.H. van de Water wrote:
> 
>> > > me@work /cygdrive
>> > > $ ls
>> > > c  d
>> > >
>> > > So `/cygdrive` *is* a valid directory in Cygwin.
>> >
>> > That supports the code that does not special case a path that begins
>> > with /cygdrive/ and simply treats it as a full path and freely use
>> > relative path, I guess.  Very good point.
>> 
>> Please read
>> 
>>     https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive
>>     ( The cygdrive path prefix )
>> 
>> .... you can access arbitary drives on your system by using the 
>> cygdrive path
>> prefix. The default value for this prefix is /cygdrive ...
>> ....
>> 
>> The cygdrive prefix is a >>> virtual directory <<< under which all 
>> drives on
>> a system are subsumed ...
>> ....
>> 
>> The cygdrive prefix may be CHANGED in the fstab file as outlined above 
>> !!!!!
>> ....
>> 
>> To simplify scripting, Cygwin also provides a /proc/cygdrive symlink, 
>> ...
>> 
>> =====
> 
> That's all very interesting, but I fail to see the relevance with 
> regards
> to the issue at hand, namely whether to special-case `/cygdrive` as a
> special prefix that cannot be treated as directory in Git.
> 
> I still maintain that it should not be special-cased, no matter whether 
> it
> is a virtual directory or whether it can be renamed to 
> `/jh-likes-cygwin`
> or whatever.

Ok. Sorry about the noise.

 From your post I got the impression that you believed that there will 
always
be a directory called /cygdrive on Cygwin.

My point: it can have a different name.

Regards,

Henri