Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Le 09/08/2011 19:24, Ramsay Jones a écrit :
> Pascal Obry wrote:
>> In fact Cygwin supports both, so make Git agree with this.
>> The failing case is when a file is committed in a sub-dir of the
>> repository using a log message from a file specified with a DOS
>> style path-name. To reproduce:
>>
>>     $ cd src
>>     $ git commit -F c:\tmp\log.txt file.c
>>     fatal: could not read log file 'src/c:\tmp\log.txt': No such file \
>>     or directory.
>
> Hmm, are you using bash or cmd.exe? Using bash I get the following:

bash.

>
>      $ cd src
>      $ git commut -F c:\tmp\log.txt file.c
>      fatal: could not read file 'src/c:tmplog.txt': No such file or directory
>      $
>
> Which is what I would expect of (any) posix shell, viz:
>
>      $ ls c:\
>      >  ^C
>      $ ls c:\\
>      AUTOEXEC.BAT*            NTDETECT.COM*               WATCOM/       msysgit/
>      CMPNENTS/                Program Files/              WINDOWS/      msysgit-old/
>      CONFIG.SYS*              RECYCLER/                   boot.ini*     ntldr*
>      Documents and Settings/  SUPPORT/                    cygwin/       pagefile.sys
>      I386/                    SWSTAMP.TXT*                cygwintemp/   ssl/
>      IO.SYS*                  System Volume Information/  dm/           uname/
>      MSDOS.SYS*               TOOLSCD/                    dm840/        zlib/
>      MSOCache/                VALUEADD/                   hiberfil.sys

Exactly, \\ this is what I have used and this is the bug. Cygwin 
supports ls c:\\ so should Cygwin/Git. My quoted example was missing the 
escape \.

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