Re: [PATCH 1/1] mingw: handle absolute paths in expand_user_path()

> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 3:55 PM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> >
> > On Windows, an absolute POSIX path needs to be turned into a Windows
> > one.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> > ---
> >  path.c | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
> > index 34f0f98349..a72abf0e1f 100644
> > --- a/path.c
> > +++ b/path.c
> > @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
> >  #include "path.h"
> >  #include "packfile.h"
> >  #include "object-store.h"
> > +#include "exec-cmd.h"
> >
> >  static int get_st_mode_bits(const char *path, int *mode)
> >  {
> > @@ -709,6 +710,10 @@ char *expand_user_path(const char *path, int real_home)
> >
> >         if (path == NULL)
> >                 goto return_null;
> > +#ifdef __MINGW32__
> > +       if (path[0] == '/')
> > +               return system_path(path + 1);
> > +#endif
> 
> Should this behavior be documented somewhere, maybe in config.txt?

> 
> >         if (path[0] == '~') {
> >                 const char *first_slash = strchrnul(path, '/');
> >                 const char *username = path + 1;
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> Duy
>