From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:04:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0911260059040.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdgyp3zn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > This would break spectacularly in MSys.
> 
> How?  If that is the case wouldn't --full-tree break Msys the same way?

If you want to specify an argument on MSys that starts with a slash, you 
have to provide double slashes, otherwise it gets expanded to the Windows 
path (prefixing with the absolute path of the MSys root).

But this introduces yet another inconcistency: using double slashes 
everywhere else does not work.

Hopefully you see the real reason why it breaks down?  The reason is that 
you try to re-interpret something in a special way that means something 
different.  A path starting with a slash simply does not mean "the root of 
the project".  It means "the root of the file system".

Ciao,
Dscho