From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pascal Obry Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2011, #04; Mon, 12) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:03:55 +0200 Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net Message-ID: <4E845EAB.2060002@obry.net> References: <7v4o0h7byd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v7h5d2wd3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: pascal@obry.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , Ramsay Jones , Johannes Sixt , git@vger.kernel.org To: kusmabite@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 29 14:04:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9FLS-0008Vf-3g for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752661Ab1I2MEA convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:04:00 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:56406 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751000Ab1I2MEA (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:04:00 -0400 Received: by wwf22 with SMTP id 22so931382wwf.1 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.12.15 with SMTP id v15mr10477864wbv.77.1317297838887; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:03:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (AVelizy-154-1-56-48.w83-199.abo.wanadoo.fr. [83.199.38.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p2sm2153652wbo.17.2011.09.29.05.03.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:03:57 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 Thunderbird/2.0.0.22 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Le 13/09/2011 11:46, Erik Faye-Lund a =E9crit : > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Junio C Hamano = wrote: >> Junio C Hamano writes: >> >>> [Stalled] >>> >>> * po/cygwin-backslash (2011-08-05) 2 commits >>> - On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names >>> - git-compat-util: add generic find_last_dir_sep that respects is= _dir_sep >> >> Honestly I lost track of this one. How would we want to proceed on t= his >> topic after 1.7.7? >> >> Asking help from Windows folks. > > I believe Hannes pointed out that there were some work left to be don= e > on it ("enable backslash processing in setup.c:prefix_filename()"), > and I didn't spot a new version after that. He also pointed out that > enabling backslash processing would cause you to lose the ability to > escape special characters, but it sounds to me like this is something > that simply "comes with the territory" of supporting win32-paths in a > POSIX-ish environment, and is already the governing convention in > Cygwin. But I'm not an expert on this topic; Cygwin is not something = I > usually care much about. Same here, not expert. I just can say that this at least fixes a real=20 problem and the patches (provided by Theo and I) are going in the right= =20 direction. They may be some other issues about Windows backslash (my=20 experiences show that there is very entertaining issues with this!) but= =20 I don't think we should hold those patches except if someone prove them= =20 to be wrong. Pascal. --=20 --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net - http://v2p.fr.eu.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B