# [PATCH] t9001: PATH must not use Windows-style paths

2 messages from 2021-08-24 to 2021-08-25. Participants: Johannes Sixt, Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/56369

## Johannes Sixt, 2021-08-24 18:01

Subject: [PATCH] t9001: PATH must not use Windows-style paths
Message-ID: <4f5c5633-f5a2-3c99-329e-3057b8d447d2@kdbg.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4f5c5633-f5a2-3c99-329e-3057b8d447d2%40kdbg.org

```
On Windows, $(pwd) returns a drive-letter style path C:/foo, while $PWD
contains a POSIX style /c/foo path. When we want to interpolate the
current directory in the PATH variable, we must not use the C:/foo style,
because the meaning of the colon is ambiguous. Use the POSIX style.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
---
 This belongs on top of branch ga/send-email-sendmail-cmd.

 t/t9001-send-email.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
index 57fc10e7f8..595cbad372 100755
--- a/t/t9001-send-email.sh
+++ b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
@@ -2198,7 +2198,7 @@ test_expect_success $PREREQ 'leading and trailing whitespaces are removed' '
 
 test_expect_success $PREREQ 'test using command name with --sendmail-cmd' '
 	clean_fake_sendmail &&
-	PATH="$(pwd):$PATH" \
+	PATH="$PWD:$PATH" \
 	git send-email \
 		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
 		--to=nobody@example.com \
-- 
2.33.0.129.g739793498e


```

## Johannes Schindelin, 2021-08-25 12:27

Subject: Re: [PATCH] t9001: PATH must not use Windows-style paths
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2108251427020.55@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2108251427020.55%40tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet
In-Reply-To: <4f5c5633-f5a2-3c99-329e-3057b8d447d2@kdbg.org>

```
Hi Hannes,

On Tue, 24 Aug 2021, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> On Windows, $(pwd) returns a drive-letter style path C:/foo, while $PWD
> contains a POSIX style /c/foo path. When we want to interpolate the
> current directory in the PATH variable, we must not use the C:/foo style,
> because the meaning of the colon is ambiguous. Use the POSIX style.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Thank you,
Dscho

> ---
>  This belongs on top of branch ga/send-email-sendmail-cmd.
>
>  t/t9001-send-email.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
> index 57fc10e7f8..595cbad372 100755
> --- a/t/t9001-send-email.sh
> +++ b/t/t9001-send-email.sh
> @@ -2198,7 +2198,7 @@ test_expect_success $PREREQ 'leading and trailing whitespaces are removed' '
>
>  test_expect_success $PREREQ 'test using command name with --sendmail-cmd' '
>  	clean_fake_sendmail &&
> -	PATH="$(pwd):$PATH" \
> +	PATH="$PWD:$PATH" \
>  	git send-email \
>  		--from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \
>  		--to=nobody@example.com \
> --
> 2.33.0.129.g739793498e
>
>

```