Re: Cygwin Git with Windows paths

From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2018, 17:34 UTC
Message-ID: <CAAXzdLXmJ1YKiTF17b=ZfkM3HtJCNkvVMQNU=riW8R42VLid_Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181118171525.GA25854@tor.lan>

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:15 AM Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

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> But it may be that we need to pull in more stuff, similar to mingw,
> to get the C: stuff working, see
> "skip_dos_drive_prefix"
>
> And it may even be that we need a special handling for the "\" to be treated
> as "/".
>
> If you implement "skip_dos_drive_prefix" similar to mingw,
> (rename mingw into cygwin) does
>
> git clone <source> C:/my/dir/
> work ?

I added this to "compat/cygwin.h":

    #define has_dos_drive_prefix(path) \
      (isalpha(*(path)) && (path)[1] == ':' ? 2 : 0)
    int mingw_skip_dos_drive_prefix(char **path);
    #define skip_dos_drive_prefix mingw_skip_dos_drive_prefix

and added this to "compat/cygwin.c":

    int mingw_skip_dos_drive_prefix(char **path) {
      int ret = has_dos_drive_prefix(*path);
      *path += ret;
      return ret;
    }

but still, these dont work:

    git clone <source> C:/my/dir
    git clone <source> 'C:\my\dir'