From: Johannes Sixt Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:57:22 GMT Subject: Re: Same test-path-utils behaves differently on different Windows systems Message-ID: <5256EA82.7020504@kdbg.org> In-Reply-To: Am 10.10.2013 17:52, schrieb Sebastian Schuberth: > Hi again, > > the problem can also be reproduced in an easier way, independently of > mingwGitDevEnv and using the mingw_path function instead of > relative_path. If I install msysGit 1.8.4 from [1] and run > test-path-utils I get this on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit: > > $ test-path-utils mingw_path /a/b/ > a:/b/ > > But if I install [1] on my local Windows 8 64-bit I get: > > $ test-path-utils mingw_path /a/b/ > C:/msysgit/msysGit/a/b/ Interesting. I guess that you get consistent behavior when the first path component is not merely a single letter, e.g., /foo/bar. Do you have a drive a: configured somewhere in your MSYS environment on the 2k8r2 machine? See /etc/fstab. Do you have a floppy drive in that machine? -- Hannes -- -- *** Please reply-to-all at all times *** *** (do not pretend to know who is subscribed and who is not) *** *** Please avoid top-posting. *** The msysGit Wiki is here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki - Github accounts are free. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To post to this group, send email to msysgit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, and view previous threads, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.