Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 9, 2018, 01:39 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk1kj5vhg.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181208151109.2097-1-tboegi@web.de>

tboegi@web.de writes:

> - The "DOS" moniker is still used for 2 reasons:
>   Windows inherited the "drive letter" concept from DOS,
>   and everybody (tm) familar with the code and the path handling
>   in Git is used to that wording.

Yeah, for the same reason as win32 can refer to their API that is used on platforms that are 64-bit, the fact that the "drive letter" concept came from DOS is so widely ingrained, I do not think it is a beter change to deviate from it.

> And, before any cleanup is done, I sould like to ask if anybody
> can build the code with VS and confirm that it works, please ?

Yup, that is much more important.

Thanks.

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