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Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names

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Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Date
Aug 11, 2011, 20:35 UTC
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Pascal Obry wrote:
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> Le 09/08/2011 19:24, Ramsay Jones a écrit :
>> Pascal Obry wrote:
>>> In fact Cygwin supports both, so make Git agree with this.
>>> The failing case is when a file is committed in a sub-dir of the
>>> repository using a log message from a file specified with a DOS
>>> style path-name. To reproduce:
>>>
>>>     $ cd src
>>>     $ git commit -F c:\tmp\log.txt file.c
>>>     fatal: could not read log file 'src/c:\tmp\log.txt': No such file \
>>>     or directory.
>> Hmm, are you using bash or cmd.exe? Using bash I get the following:
> 
> bash.

Ah, OK. The example in your commit message looked odd (ie incorrect) which made me think that you were probably using cnd.exe, so ...

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>>      $ cd src
>>      $ git commut -F c:\tmp\log.txt file.c
>>      fatal: could not read file 'src/c:tmplog.txt': No such file or directory
>>      $
>>
>> Which is what I would expect of (any) posix shell, viz:
>>
>>      $ ls c:\
>>      >  ^C
>>      $ ls c:\\
>>      AUTOEXEC.BAT*            NTDETECT.COM*               WATCOM/       msysgit/
>>      CMPNENTS/                Program Files/              WINDOWS/      msysgit-old/
>>      CONFIG.SYS*              RECYCLER/                   boot.ini*     ntldr*
>>      Documents and Settings/  SUPPORT/                    cygwin/       pagefile.sys
>>      I386/                    SWSTAMP.TXT*                cygwintemp/   ssl/
>>      IO.SYS*                  System Volume Information/  dm/           uname/
>>      MSDOS.SYS*               TOOLSCD/                    dm840/        zlib/
>>      MSOCache/                VALUEADD/                   hiberfil.sys
> 
> Exactly, \\ this is what I have used and this is the bug. Cygwin 
> supports ls c:\\ so should Cygwin/Git. My quoted example was missing the 
> escape \.
 ... could you please correct your commit message. Thanks!

ATB, Ramsay Jones

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  1. Pascal ObryAug 5, 2011
  2. 1/2 git-compat-util: add generic find_last_dir_sep that respects is_dir_sepPascal Obry, Aug 5, 2011
  3. 2/2 On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-namesPascal Obry, Aug 5, 2011
  4. Erik Faye-LundAug 5, 2011
  5. Pascal ObryAug 5, 2011
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  8. Pascal ObryAug 5, 2011
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