From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:29:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names
Message-ID: <CABPQNSYSzsY-CQdi6iJQftsY1ufMpxkax=eQLgopVxMC6LoxfA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1312560614-20772-3-git-send-email-pascal@obry.net>

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> wrote:
> In fact Cygwin supports both, so make Git agree with this.
> The failing case is when a file is committed in a sub-dir of the
> repository using a log message from a file specified with a DOS
> style path-name. To reproduce:
>
>   $ cd src
>   $ git commit -F c:\tmp\log.txt file.c
>   fatal: could not read log file 'src/c:\tmp\log.txt': No such file \
>   or directory.

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?

If you want a Git that handles Windows paths, use Git for Windows...