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Re: [PATCH] t5580: add Cygwin support

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 31, 2017, 17:39 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1710311839340.6482@virtualbox>
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<20171031131903.10496-1-adam@dinwoodie.org>
Hi Adam,
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
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> t5580 tests that specifying Windows UNC paths works with Git.  Cygwin
> supports UNC paths, albeit only using forward slashes, not backslashes,
> so run the compatible tests on Cygwin as well as MinGW.
> 
> The only complication is Cygwin's `pwd`, which returns a *nix-style
> path, and that's not suitable for calculating the UNC path to the
> current directory.  Instead use Cygwin's `cygpath` utility to get the
> Windows-style path.
Looks good!

Thank you, Dscho

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