From: Ricky Clarkson Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:47:23 GMT Subject: Re: Case sensitivity on Windows for absolute paths. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201004252008.27823.j6t@kdbg.org> Hi Johannes, $ cd /c/uk-org-netvu/ Ricky@RICKY-XP /c/uk-org-netvu (trunk) $ cmd Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. c:\uk-org-netvu> If I run cmd via Start -> Run, then the prompt shows C:\uk-org-netvu> I also verified this using the Scala interpreter, printing out System.getProperty("user.dir"), which varied similarly in case depending on whether I started it from cmd or from Git Bash. Thanks, Ricky. -- Ricky Clarkson Java and Scala Programmer, AD Holdings +44 1928 706373 Skype: ricky_clarkson Google Talk: ricky.clarkson@gmail.com Google Wave: ricky.clarkson@googlewave.com On 25 April 2010 19:08, Johannes Sixt wrote: > On Sonntag, 25. April 2010, Ricky Clarkson wrote: >> It would be good if git automatically uppercased the drive letter, >> yes.  However, I found the real root of my problem.  Git Bash >> (msysgit) sets the working directory to c:\foo for programs launched >> if the working directory within it is /c/foo. > > I don't understand what you mean. Git Bash cannot influence whether git sees > the drive letter in the working directory in uppercase or lowercase. Unless > by "working directory" you mean something else than what getcwd() returns. > > -- Hannes >