Re: [PATCH 1/4] config --show-origin: report paths with forward slashes

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Mar 30, 2016, 05:52 UTC
Message-ID: <56FB6989.8070906@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <56FAD506.4050701@kdbg.org>

Am 29.03.2016 um 21:18 schrieb Johannes Sixt:

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> Am 28.03.2016 um 17:14 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
>> The problem with your patch is that it does not account for backslashes in
>> paths resulting in quoting. I am afraid that your patch will most likely
>> *not* let the tests pass in Git for Windows SDK, while my patch does.
>
> It does pass. The reason is that pwd -W generates forward slashes.

It just occurred to me that we might be observing a difference in behavior of pwd -W between the modern MSYS2 bash and the old MSYS1 bash that I am using. If that is the case the tests won't pass under MSYS2 without the change made by 5ca6b7bb (config --show-origin: report paths with forward slashes).

-- Hannes

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