Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] test: use unambigous leading path (/foo) for mingw

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Sep 14, 2013, 06:52 UTC
Message-ID: <523407AF.9080205@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtxhoijpz.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On 2013-09-13 21.51, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> In test cases for relative_path, path with one leading character
>> (such as /a, /x) may be recogonized as "a:/" or "x:/" if there is
>> such doc drive on MINGW platform. Use an umambigous leading path
>> "/foo" instead.
> 
> "DOS drive", you mean?
> 
> Are they really spelled as /a or /x (not e.g. //a or something)?
> 
> Just double-checking.

Yes, there is a directoctory structure in / like this:

/usr /bin /lib Then we have the drive letters mapped to single letters: /c/Documents and Settings /c/temp

As an alternative c:/temp can be used or the DOS style "c:\temp"

And the // or "\\" is used for the UNC names (Universal Name Convention) //Servername/ShareName/Directory

/Torsten