From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:13:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree
Message-ID: <7vzl6annwm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0911260059040.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> If you want to specify an argument on MSys that starts with a slash, you 
> have to provide double slashes, otherwise it gets expanded to the Windows 
> path (prefixing with the absolute path of the MSys root).

How well does the command line hack handle things like

    $ git archive --output=/var/tmp/foo.tar

I have to wonder.

> Hopefully you see the real reason why it breaks down?

Yes, Windows' braindamage.  It doesn't invalidate anything I said so far,
but only proves that emulation can go only so far.  I hope msys port can
grok real "path from root" notation on Windows, e.g.

    $ git diff --no-index "C:\My Documents/hello.txt" "D:\goodbye.txt"

(or perhaps "//c/my documents/...", but I do not care about the details).