From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:19:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: fix misdetection of relative pathnames
Message-ID: <7v1vucg5ss.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <498ADB1B.7030300@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> That said, I don't think it's worth to cater for this use-case, precisely
> because we want to *avoid* absolute paths on Windows anyway, and apply the
> change that you proposed here.
>
> [*] The reason it does not work is that we cannot use MSYS-style absolute
> paths /c/Foo/Bar because the paths will be interpreted by git, which does
> not understand them; the user must specify drive-letter absolute paths
> c:/Foo/Bar, but the check does not catch them.

Hmm, not c:\Program Files\Git?

In any case, thanks for an Ack.  It clears one remaining issue for -rc0
(and there are certainly others I have forgot).