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Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names

From
VLVijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 10, 2011, 02:44 UTC
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Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:
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> Pascal Obry wrote:
>> In fact Cygwin supports both, so make Git agree with this.
>> The failing case is when a file is committed in a sub-dir of the
>> repository using a log message from a file specified with a DOS
>> style path-name. To reproduce:
>> 
>>    $ cd src
>>    $ git commit -F c:\tmp\log.txt file.c
>>    fatal: could not read log file 'src/c:\tmp\log.txt': No such file \
>>    or directory.
>
> Hmm, are you using bash or cmd.exe? Using bash I get the following:
>
>     $ cd src
>     $ git commut -F c:\tmp\log.txt file.c
>     fatal: could not read file 'src/c:tmplog.txt': No such file or directory
>     $ 
>
> Which is what I would expect of (any) posix shell, viz:
>
>     $ ls c:\
>     > ^C
>     $ ls c:\\
>     AUTOEXEC.BAT*            NTDETECT.COM*               WATCOM/       msysgit/
>     CMPNENTS/                Program Files/              WINDOWS/      msysgit-old/
>     CONFIG.SYS*              RECYCLER/                   boot.ini*     ntldr*
>     Documents and Settings/  SUPPORT/                    cygwin/       pagefile.sys
>     I386/                    SWSTAMP.TXT*                cygwintemp/   ssl/
>     IO.SYS*                  System Volume Information/  dm/           uname/
>     MSDOS.SYS*               TOOLSCD/                    dm840/        zlib/
>     MSOCache/                VALUEADD/                   hiberfil.sys
>     $

FWIW, I use git on Cygwin and it works quite well. Cygwin supports Windows paths when quoted. So

$ ls 'C:\Users\vijay\Desktop'

works as expected. This is very useful when you're copying paths from, say, Windows Explorer, to Cygwin.

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> ATB,
> Ramsay Jones
>
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~vijay

Gnus should be more complicated.
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Message 18 of 19 in “[PATH 0/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names”
  1. Pascal ObryAug 5, 2011
  2. 1/2 git-compat-util: add generic find_last_dir_sep that respects is_dir_sepPascal Obry, Aug 5, 2011
  3. 2/2 On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-namesPascal Obry, Aug 5, 2011
  4. Erik Faye-LundAug 5, 2011
  5. Pascal ObryAug 5, 2011
  6. Erik Faye-LundAug 5, 2011
  7. Erik Faye-LundAug 5, 2011
  8. Pascal ObryAug 5, 2011
  9. Ramsay JonesAug 9, 2011
  10. Ramsay JonesAug 9, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2011
  12. Erik Faye-LundAug 5, 2011
  13. Pascal ObryAug 6, 2011
  14. Ramsay JonesAug 9, 2011
  15. Pascal ObryAug 9, 2011
  16. Ramsay JonesAug 11, 2011
  17. Pascal ObryAug 13, 2011
  18. Vijay LakshminarayananAug 10, 2011
  19. Johannes SixtAug 9, 2011

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