Re: [PATCH] Handle UNC paths everywhere

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 26, 2010, 11:01 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001261200010.4641@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <201001252104.10328.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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> måndagen den 25 januari 2010 18.34.01 skrev  Johannes Schindelin:
> > I am also not quite sure if you can get away with having the same offset
> > for both: if I have "C:\blah" and strip off "C:", I always have a
> > directory separator to bounce against, whereas I do not have that if I
> > strip off the two "\\" of a UNC path.  Besides, I maintain that the host
> > name, and maybe even the share name, should not ever be stripped off!
> 
> Advices needed:
> 
> d:somedir (when cwd=d:\msysgit, == /) may be tricky to fix.

This is a totally different issue from the UNC issue you brought up. May I suggest to fix the UNC thing first, and if you feel inclined, take care of the relative DOS drive path afterwards?

The relative DOS drive path is also not something I find overly pressing, as I work from the Git bash, as you know, which does not translate POSIX-style paths into such relative DOS drive paths.

Ciao, Dscho