From: Sebastian Schuberth Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:27:00 GMT Subject: Re: Same test-path-utils behaves differently on different Windows systems Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <52570860.3060503@kdbg.org> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: >> 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 -- Sebastian Schuberth -- -- *** Please reply-to-all at all times *** *** (do not pretend to know who is subscribed and who is not) *** *** Please avoid top-posting. *** The msysGit Wiki is here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki - Github accounts are free. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To post to this group, send email to msysgit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, and view previous threads, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.