"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com> wrote in message news:<7vaa116ulx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>...
> > If you _only_ allow editors that understands windows style paths, your > patch may make sense, but doesn't it break editors that wants only
POSIX
> style paths?
The Cygwin Users' Guide says "Using native Win32 paths in Cygwin, while possible, is generally inadvisable."
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32
Is this similar to the problem of line ending (POSIX lf vs. Windows cr-lf)? Windows Notepad won't correctly display files with lf line endings, either. So maybe this should be a configuration option, as with line endings?