From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:39:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names
Message-ID: <CABPQNSYQ9D7NO5cx_o3csAe4bQ40kOd1f5gATUXDb7r4n3GhdA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E3C29D9.5060305@obry.net>

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> wrote:
> 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.

>> 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.