Re: Same test-path-utils behaves differently on different Windows systems

From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 10, 2013, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHGBnuO_yDuv5b1r8imWKgRcN7hjcidg+Uv-jD8LOkJD-Mtn+w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <52570860.3060503@kdbg.org>

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:

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>> So the obvious thing would be to replace /a/b/ with
>> /foo/bar/ in the tests, but that just masks the problem, or?
>
> The strange behavior is not a problem in Git, it is a problem of MSYS.
> Using /foo/bar instead of /a/b in Git's test suite is a reasonable
> work-around.
>
> If you mean that you get ../../C:/something from the relative_path
> computation, that *is* a problem in Git, which is addressed by the topic
> jx/relative-path-regression-fix.

Thanks for pointing out that topic to me. As it turn out, it already has a commit to use /foo/bar instead of /a/b [1]. However, it again mixes up MSYS with MinGW in several places. I'll reply to the patch mails.

[1] https://github.com/gitster/git/commit/15b0ae73520895caffc2eb65732dbf618fb22c62

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