From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:59:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG?] git-cvsimport: path to cvspsfile
Message-ID: <4ABB0ACF.5040508@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090923191428.GA30104@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King schrieb:
> Bug. The script does a chdir() and then looks at the cvspsfile later. I
> think "-A" would have the same problem. Here is a totally untested patch
> to address the issue. Johannes, will this is_absolute_path actually work
> on Windows? I think The Right Way would be to use
> File::Spec::file_name_is_absolute, but I haven't checked whether that is
> part of core perl and if so, which version it appeared in.

We have File::Spec::file_name_is_absolute in the msysgit installation. I
suggest you use it. It sounds like a very basic feature, and I'd be
surprised if it were not part of core perl.

-- Hannes