# Re: [PATCH] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names

3 messages from 2011-07-27 to 2011-07-28. Participants: Theo Niessink, Pascal Obry.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/27935

## Theo Niessink, 2011-07-27 15:57

Subject: Re: [PATCH] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names
Message-ID: <FD5C22CB4AC2439D8151F6B7CD4B7CC9@martinic.local>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/FD5C22CB4AC2439D8151F6B7CD4B7CC9%40martinic.local

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Pascal Obry wrote:
> In fact Cygwin supports both, so make Git agree with this.

Why not indeed, especially since both are already supported under MinGW.

> +#define has_dos_drive_prefix(path) (isalpha(*(path)) && (path)[1] == ':')
> +#define is_dir_sep(c) ((c) == '/' || (c) == '\\')

I think that by defining is_dir_sep you enable DOS/Windows style paths
throughout Git, so you might want to check compat/mingw.h for other, related
changes. You will probably at least want the MinGW version of
find_last_dir_sep as well, because the default find_last_dir_sep doesn't use
is_dir_sep.

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## Pascal Obry, 2011-07-28 09:28

Subject: Re: [PATCH] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names
Message-ID: <4E312BD6.6020901@obry.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4E312BD6.6020901%40obry.net
In-Reply-To: <FD5C22CB4AC2439D8151F6B7CD4B7CC9@martinic.local>

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Theo,

>> +#define has_dos_drive_prefix(path) (isalpha(*(path))&&  (path)[1] == ':')
>> +#define is_dir_sep(c) ((c) == '/' || (c) == '\\')
>
> I think that by defining is_dir_sep you enable DOS/Windows style paths
> throughout Git, so you might want to check compat/mingw.h for other, related
> changes. You will probably at least want the MinGW version of
> find_last_dir_sep as well, because the default find_last_dir_sep doesn't use
> is_dir_sep.

Thanks for the review/feedback. Will work on that and propose another patch.

Pascal.

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## Theo Niessink, 2011-07-28 10:44

Subject: RE: [PATCH] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names
Message-ID: <214795D425BD400EB32D9D140BB8C1F6@martinic.local>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/214795D425BD400EB32D9D140BB8C1F6%40martinic.local
In-Reply-To: <4E312BD6.6020901@obry.net>

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Pascal Obry wrote:
> Thanks for the review/feedback. Will work on that and propose another
> patch.

Perhaps something like this on top of (or before) your patch?

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] git-compat-util: add generic find_last_dir_sep that respects
 is_dir_sep

Move MinGW's find_last_dir_sep to git-compat-util.h, so it can also be used
on other platforms that define is_dir_sep, e.g. Cygwin.

Signed-off-by: Theo Niessink <theo@taletn.com>
---
 compat/mingw.h    |    9 ---------
 git-compat-util.h |   12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index ce9dd98..547568b 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h
@@ -300,15 +300,6 @@ int winansi_fprintf(FILE *stream, const char *format, ...) __attribute__((format
 
 #define has_dos_drive_prefix(path) (isalpha(*(path)) && (path)[1] == ':')
 #define is_dir_sep(c) ((c) == '/' || (c) == '\\')
-static inline char *mingw_find_last_dir_sep(const char *path)
-{
-	char *ret = NULL;
-	for (; *path; ++path)
-		if (is_dir_sep(*path))
-			ret = (char *)path;
-	return ret;
-}
-#define find_last_dir_sep mingw_find_last_dir_sep
 #define PATH_SEP ';'
 #define PRIuMAX "I64u"
 
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index ddfbf77..c2c94cd 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -211,6 +211,18 @@ extern char *gitbasename(char *);
 #define has_dos_drive_prefix(path) 0
 #endif
 
+#if !defined(find_last_dir_sep) && defined(is_dir_sep)
+static inline char *compat_find_last_dir_sep(const char *path)
+{
+	char *ret = NULL;
+	for (; *path; ++path)
+		if (is_dir_sep(*path))
+			ret = (char *)path;
+	return ret;
+}
+#define find_last_dir_sep compat_find_last_dir_sep
+#endif
+
 #ifndef is_dir_sep
 #define is_dir_sep(c) ((c) == '/')
 #endif
-- 
1.7.6.msysgit.0

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