From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:35:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names
Message-ID: <4E3C29D9.5060305@obry.net>
In-Reply-To: <CABPQNSYSzsY-CQdi6iJQftsY1ufMpxkax=eQLgopVxMC6LoxfA@mail.gmail.com>

Le 05/08/2011 19:29, Erik Faye-Lund a écrit :
> Cygwin is a unix-layer on top of Windows, designed to play by the
> POSIX-rules. So why would you want to support Windows-style paths on
> Cygwin?

Because cygwin toolset does support \.

> If you want a Git that handles Windows paths, use Git for Windows...

Note that Windows is a special case as even the Win32 API does support \ 
and /, so every tool on Windows seems to handle nicely this. Why not 
Git, be it Cygwin/Git. If it does not break anything else.

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