From: Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:10:50 GMT
Subject: Re: msysgit: does git gui work?
Message-ID: <ACBC67D9E9124ECFAAF6B0E20CE660C0@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0708100440l116f934ft22d3ac3c71e2e7cf@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
>> In my experience, Windows users (not Mac users forced to use Windows)
>> _expect_ "." to be in the PATH.
> 
> ...because they _cannot_ know otherwise. In Windows, you cannot remove "."
> from PATH, it is implicitly in it.
> It is actually worse than that: the system directories are in PATH
> too. Unconditionally.
> Yes, the same system directories all them programs put their .exes into.

This is not true:
C:\>where cmd.exe
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

C:\>set path=

C:\>cmd
'cmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Also there is an option to exclude implicit '.' from path, but no one uses it because too many things will break.

- Dmitry