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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2011, #04; Mon, 12)

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Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
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Le 13/09/2011 11:46, Erik Faye-Lund a écrit :
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> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com>  wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com>  writes:
>>
>>> [Stalled]
>>>
>>> * po/cygwin-backslash (2011-08-05) 2 commits
>>>   - On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names
>>>   - git-compat-util: add generic find_last_dir_sep that respects is_dir_sep
>>
>> Honestly I lost track of this one. How would we want to proceed on this
>> topic after 1.7.7?
>>
>> Asking help from Windows folks.
>
> I believe Hannes pointed out that there were some work left to be done
> on it ("enable backslash processing in setup.c:prefix_filename()"),
> and I didn't spot a new version after that. He also pointed out that
> enabling backslash processing would cause you to lose the ability to
> escape special characters, but it sounds to me like this is something
> that simply "comes with the territory" of supporting win32-paths in a
> POSIX-ish environment, and is already the governing convention in
> Cygwin. But I'm not an expert on this topic; Cygwin is not something I
> usually care much about.

Same here, not expert. I just can say that this at least fixes a real problem and the patches (provided by Theo and I) are going in the right direction. They may be some other issues about Windows backslash (my experiences show that there is very entertaining issues with this!) but I don't think we should hold those patches except if someone prove them to be wrong.

Pascal.
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  2. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2011
  4. Jeff KingSep 12, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2011
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 13, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2011
  8. Documentation: basic configuration of notes.rewriteRefThomas Rast, Sep 13, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2011
  10. Jeff KingSep 13, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2011
  13. Jonathon MahSep 14, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2011
  15. mergetool: Use args as pathspec to unmerged filesJonathon Mah, Sep 16, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2011
  17. David AguilarSep 25, 2011
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2011
  20. Sverre RabbelierSep 12, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2011
  22. Erik Faye-LundSep 13, 2011
  23. Pascal ObrySep 29, 2011
  24. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2011
  25. Michael J GruberSep 13, 2011
  26. Eric SunshineSep 12, 2011
  27. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2011
  28. Jeff KingSep 12, 2011
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  30. Brandon CaseySep 13, 2011
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  33. John SzakmeisterSep 13, 2011
  34. Eric SunshineSep 13, 2011
  35. Jeff KingSep 13, 2011
  36. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2011

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