From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 17:02:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Git commit path vs rebase path
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In-Reply-To: <CAAXzdLW9_O+feVpBhDSXQH_SFRdrct1tjadpFoJ5d7-Qd1LWEg@mail.gmail.com>

Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com> writes:

> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Are you saying that the new pwd function will also be used on Cygwin? That
>> would be a bug.
>
> The linked patch should fix the problem for _MinGW_ users.
>
> The problem will persist with _Cygwin_ users.

What does a full pathname, fed as a parameter when invoking Windows native
binaries like notepad, look like in a Cygwin environment?  That is, if you
are writing a bash script that is meant to run in a Cygwin environment,
and if the script takes the name of a file in the current directory, but
it needs to chdir around for its own reasons before spawning notepad on
the file, i.e.

	#!/bin/bash
	file="$(pwd)/$1"
        ...
        cd ..some..where..else..you..have..no..control..over
        notepad "$file"

what is the right incantation to replace `pwd` in 'file="$(pwd)/$1"'
above?

Whatever that is, using that instead of `pwd` in git-sh-setup.sh here:

	test -n "$GIT_DIR" && GIT_DIR=$(cd "$GIT_DIR" && pwd) || {

would be the solution.