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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
To: kusmabite@gmail.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:35:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E3C29D9.5060305@obry.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPQNSYSzsY-CQdi6iJQftsY1ufMpxkax=eQLgopVxMC6LoxfA@mail.gmail.com>

Le 05/08/2011 19:29, Erik Faye-Lund a écrit :
> Cygwin is a unix-layer on top of Windows, designed to play by the
> POSIX-rules. So why would you want to support Windows-style paths on
> Cygwin?

Because cygwin toolset does support \.

> If you want a Git that handles Windows paths, use Git for Windows...

Note that Windows is a special case as even the Win32 API does support \ 
and /, so every tool on Windows seems to handle nicely this. Why not 
Git, be it Cygwin/Git. If it does not break anything else.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-05 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-05 16:10 [PATH 0/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names Pascal Obry
2011-08-05 16:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-compat-util: add generic find_last_dir_sep that respects is_dir_sep Pascal Obry
2011-08-05 16:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names Pascal Obry
2011-08-05 17:29   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-08-05 17:35     ` Pascal Obry [this message]
2011-08-05 17:39       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-08-05 17:51         ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-08-05 18:39         ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-09 17:30       ` Ramsay Jones
2011-08-09 17:26     ` Ramsay Jones
2011-08-05 17:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-05 17:58     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-08-06  7:01     ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-09 17:24   ` Ramsay Jones
2011-08-09 20:38     ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-11 20:35       ` Ramsay Jones
2011-08-13 17:34         ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-10  2:44     ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-08-09 19:47   ` Johannes Sixt

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