From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 00:43:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-sh-setup: work around Cygwin path handling gotchas
Message-ID: <CAAXzdLU2t64x0jk_QHjwBDP2OPEeVqipT6uaivikn=6F6aieAA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vehqib4kk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> And from Cygwin Git, your programs (like $EDITOR and hooks) will get POSIX
> paths.  It is your programs' responsibility to turn them into Windows
> paths if/as necessary.

I think this is correct. These program should be accepting Cygwin paths and are
not for obvious reason, they exist outside the the Cygwin world.

For now I will do something like this

	editor(){
		cygpath -m "$1" | xargs notepad
	}

	export -f editor
	
	git config core.editor editor