From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:31:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/40] Windows: Local clone must use the drive letter in absolute paths.
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802281530190.22527@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1204138503-6126-24-git-send-email-johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

Hi,

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> The default of pwd of MSYS's bash and /bin/pwd are to use 
> /c/rest/of/path notation instead of c:/rest/of/path. But the former is 
> not supported by programs that use the standard C runtime (instead of 
> MSYS's runtime). Hence, we must make sure that only drive letter 
> notations are generated by using pwd's -W option.

I guess that this patch will be obsolete when we have builtin clone.  So I 
have no objection to this pretty local workaround until then.

Ciao,
Dscho