Re: [PATCH] Handle UNC paths everywhere

From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2010, 10:11 UTC
Message-ID: <40aa078e1001250211w2dcc5e97vf89f64f136bd2f0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1001250136n2fb0043av7348db9177f4d096@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Heya,
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 01:55, Robin Rosenberg
> <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> wrote:
>> In Windows paths beginning with // are knows as UNC paths. They are
>> absolute paths, usually referring to a shared resource on a server.
>
> Cute, but will it actually work? I've tried to use them // paths on
> windows before with MSysGit, and it's never worked, probably due to
> the same reason why it doesn't work in the cmd prompt (whatever reason
> that may be).
>

This works for me, Vista 64-bit:

C:\Users\kusma>dir \\mongo\code The request is not supported.

C:\Users\kusma>explorer \\mongo\code <login on the gui>

C:\Users\kusma>dir \\mongo\code
 Volume in drive \\mongo\code is Code
 Volume Serial Number is 04C3-0225

 Directory of \\mongo\code

10.01.2010  21:39    <DIR>          .
04.01.2010  01:28    <DIR>          ..
04.01.2010  00:51    <DIR>          qt-rocket
10.01.2010  21:38    <DIR>          very_last_64k_ever
11.01.2010  19:57    <DIR>          scratch
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               5 Dir(s)  958 499 627 008 bytes free

C:\Users\kusma>

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Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund