From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 19:00:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Cygwin Git with Windows paths
Message-ID: <CAAXzdLWByGC+B_XdDiJwounoPgMAsMq=EuOSx9bdV-f5vQUhnA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181118182847.GA31405@tor.lan>

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 12:28 PM Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
> Thanks for testing.
> It looks as if there is more work to be done then just a simple patch.
>
> My last question for today:
> Does
>
> git clone <source> '/cgdrive/c/my/dir'
>
> work ?

yes - these all work and resolve to same path:

   git clone <source> /tmp/goawk
   git clone <source> /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/tmp/goawk
   git clone <source> /proc/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/tmp/goawk

however i would caution that any fix should not rely on "C:", as users are
allowed to install to other volumes such as "D:". Perhaps a better solution
would be for Git to just take the path as is, rather than converting it to an
absolute path?