Re[2]: [PATCH] cygwin: Convert paths for html help from posix to windows

[Steffen Jaeckel <jaeckel@stzedn.de>]

Hi,

-----Original Message-----
From: Johannes Schindelin [mailto:Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de] 

> Hi,

> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>> Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > OK, I don't really know if this is the right way to do it. Maybe when
>> > the browser was built for cygwin this breaks? I have no clue,...
>> 
>> It might be simple enough to check if all it takes is to install a
>> prepackaged browser from Cygwin suite and try to run it.  Doesn't Cygwin
>> have small ones such as lynx (or links)?

> Was it not the case that Cygwin programs could grok Windows paths, too?  
> IIRC w3m is available, dunno about lynx.

> Ciao,
> Dscho

The intention of this patch was to hand over the url to a windows
application.

In cygwin you can use lynx, links and others, but they are not as
smart to use as a browser with a real gui.

Cygwin can't handle windows paths, and this patch will break
cygwin based browsers like links...

My first idea was to patch the git-web--browse.sh script in the section
where the browser is called.
--------
diff --git a/git-web--browse.sh b/git-web--browse.sh
index 78d236b..f726f8f 100755
--- a/git-web--browse.sh
+++ b/git-web--browse.sh
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ case "$browser" in
        vers=$(expr "$($browser_path -version)" : '.* \([0-9][0-9]*\)\..*')
        NEWTAB='-new-tab'
        test "$vers" -lt 2 && NEWTAB=''
-       "$browser_path" $NEWTAB "$@" &
+       "$browser_path" $NEWTAB "`cygpath -w $@`" &
        ;;
     konqueror)
        case "$(basename "$browser_path")" in
--------
This solution works for cygwin internal browsers where the posix path
is required and it works for windows apps called out of the cygwin
environment as well.
This is certainely not a proper solution but I've got no other idea
how to solve the problem.

Best regards,
steffen
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