From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:30:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names
Message-ID: <4E416EA9.1010401@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4E3C29D9.5060305@obry.net>

Pascal Obry wrote:
> 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 \.

Hmm, if you don't mind escaping it in bash all the time!

> 
>> 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.

Hmm, I wouldn't be too sure of that, either ...

ATB,
Ramsay Jones