From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:38:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mingw: allow absolute paths without drive prefix
Message-ID: <70faf8fb-5e98-9247-9955-71b8fc983567@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <8efe7938-12a9-7db3-8f95-825ee2e32247@kdbg.org>

Am 13.12.18 um 07:25 schrieb Johannes Sixt:
> Am 13.12.18 um 03:48 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> So,... what's the conclusion?  The patch in the context of my tree
>> would be a no-op, and we'd need a prerequisite change to the support
>> function to accompany this patch to be effective?
> 
> Correct, that is my conclusion.

Moreover, there is no problem with your tree to begin with. I cloned 
into a destination without a drive letter:

C:\>git clone R:\j6t\expat.git \Temp\expat
Cloning into '\Temp\expat'...
done.

and it works fine. If I understood the description in patch 1/2 
correctly, this should have failed.

-- Hannes