Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again)

From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 8, 2018, 16:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CAAXzdLXrFNz=bbyZrx=N6D38aWpATLhQS4Q8qWmv89cuvrdNTg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181208151109.2097-1-tboegi@web.de>

On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 9:11 AM wrote:

> Changes since V2:

latest patch still fixes original issue - thanks

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> - Settled on a better name:
>   The common code is in compat/win32/path-utils.c/h
>   [...]
> - The "DOS" moniker is still used for 2 reasons:
>   Windows inherited the "drive letter" concept from DOS,
>   and everybody (tm) familar with the code and the path handling
>   in Git is used to that wording.
>   Even if there was a better name, it needed to be addressed
>   in a patch series different from this one.
>   Here I want to fix a reported regression.

i still disagree with this - but i understand if naming argument is out of scope for thread

> And, before any cleanup is done, I sould like to ask if anybody
> can build the code with VS and confirm that it works, please ?

sorry but i am decidedly *not* interested in doing this. i use cygwin specifically so that i can avoid VS. hopefully someone else will be able to test. cheers