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Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 5, 2011, 17:39 UTC
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On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> wrote:
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> Le 05/08/2011 19:29, Erik Faye-Lund a écrit :
>>
>> Cygwin is a unix-layer on top of Windows, designed to play by the
>> POSIX-rules. So why would you want to support Windows-style paths on
>> Cygwin?
>
> Because cygwin toolset does support \.
>

Are you saying that the built-in Cygwin tools (like ls etc) support Windows-style paths (C:\path\to\file)? If that is the case, I completely understand the desire to accept Windows-paths.

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>> If you want a Git that handles Windows paths, use Git for Windows...
>
> Note that Windows is a special case as even the Win32 API does support \ and
> /, so every tool on Windows seems to handle nicely this. Why not Git, be it
> Cygwin/Git. If it does not break anything else.

If the Cygwin-tools does not support drive-prefixes (i.e "C:\") but does support both slashes as path-separators, then I agree with the patch but not with the commit message.

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Message 6 of 19 in “[PATH 0/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names”
  1. Pascal ObryAug 5, 2011
  2. 1/2 git-compat-util: add generic find_last_dir_sep that respects is_dir_sepPascal Obry, Aug 5, 2011
  3. 2/2 On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-namesPascal Obry, Aug 5, 2011
  4. Erik Faye-LundAug 5, 2011
  5. Pascal ObryAug 5, 2011
  6. Erik Faye-LundAug 5, 2011
  7. Erik Faye-LundAug 5, 2011
  8. Pascal ObryAug 5, 2011
  9. Ramsay JonesAug 9, 2011
  10. Ramsay JonesAug 9, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2011
  12. Erik Faye-LundAug 5, 2011
  13. Pascal ObryAug 6, 2011
  14. Ramsay JonesAug 9, 2011
  15. Pascal ObryAug 9, 2011
  16. Ramsay JonesAug 11, 2011
  17. Pascal ObryAug 13, 2011
  18. Vijay LakshminarayananAug 10, 2011
  19. Johannes SixtAug 9, 2011

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