From: Johannes Sixt Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:46:45 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH jk/checkout-attribute-lookup] t2003: work around path mangling issue on Windows Message-ID: <514AACD5.3010106@viscovery.net> In-Reply-To: <7vli9if159.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Am 3/20/2013 18:10, schrieb Junio C Hamano: > Johannes Sixt writes: > >> From: Johannes Sixt >> >> MSYS bash considers the part "/g" in the sed expression "s/./=/g" as an >> absolute path after an assignment, and mangles it to a C:/something >> string. Do not attract bash's attention by avoiding the equals sign. > > If this breakage is about path mangling, I suspect it may be cleaner > to work it around by not using / as the pattern separator, e.g. > > sed -e s!.!=!g Half a year down the road you'd scratch your head why you were not using '/' as separator. As the replacement character is irrelevant here, it's better to exchange that. Therefore, I still prefer my version. > Or perhaps use SHELL_PATH to point at a more reasonable > implementation of shell that does not have such an idiocy? Well, POSIX and DOS paths look inherently different, particularly absolute paths. You can't write a reasonably portable shell script if the shell doesn't help in some way. Not to mention that the supply of POSIX shells on Windows is inherently scarce. -- Hannes