Re: [PATCH v1/RFC 1/1] 'git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again)

> On 2018-11-28 09:46, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, J.H. van de Water wrote:
> > 
> > > > > me@work /cygdrive
> > > > > $ ls
> > > > > c  d
> > > > >
> > > > > So `/cygdrive` *is* a valid directory in Cygwin.
> > > >
> > > > That supports the code that does not special case a path that begins
> > > > with /cygdrive/ and simply treats it as a full path and freely use
> > > > relative path, I guess.  Very good point.
> > > 
> > > Please read
> > > 
> > >     https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive
> > >     ( The cygdrive path prefix )
> > > 
> > > .... you can access arbitary drives on your system by using the cygdrive
> > > path
> > > prefix. The default value for this prefix is /cygdrive ...
> > > ....
> > > 
> > > The cygdrive prefix is a >>> virtual directory <<< under which all drives
> > > on
> > > a system are subsumed ...
> > > ....
> > > 
> > > The cygdrive prefix may be CHANGED in the fstab file as outlined above
> > > !!!!!
> > > ....
> > > 
> > > To simplify scripting, Cygwin also provides a /proc/cygdrive symlink, ...
> > > 
> > > =====
> > 
> > That's all very interesting, but I fail to see the relevance with regards
> > to the issue at hand, namely whether to special-case `/cygdrive` as a
> > special prefix that cannot be treated as directory in Git.
> > 
> > I still maintain that it should not be special-cased, no matter whether it
> > is a virtual directory or whether it can be renamed to `/jh-likes-cygwin`
> > or whatever.
> 
> Ok. Sorry about the noise.
> 
> From your post I got the impression that you believed that there will always
> be a directory called /cygdrive on Cygwin.