From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramsay Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH] t0060: loosen overly strict expectations Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:46:22 +0000 Message-ID: <5698415E.7070907@ramsayjones.plus.com> References: <5697E550.9020102@ramsayjones.plus.com> <56981DC2.6070706@kdbg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org, Michael Blume , =?UTF-8?Q?Torsten_B=c3=b6gershausen?= To: Johannes Sixt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 15 01:46:39 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aJsXE-0006Hb-NK for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:46:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756979AbcAOAqd (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:46:33 -0500 Received: from avasout04.plus.net ([212.159.14.19]:33842 "EHLO avasout04.plus.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756947AbcAOAqc (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:46:32 -0500 Received: from [10.0.2.15] ([46.208.159.221]) by avasout04 with smtp id 60mQ1s0014mu3xa010mRHr; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:46:30 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=CvRCCSMD c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=Sp5fw55EgyGSOjouSGNDoQ==:117 a=Sp5fw55EgyGSOjouSGNDoQ==:17 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=L9H7d07YOLsA:10 a=9cW_t1CCXrUA:10 a=s5jvgZ67dGcA:10 a=EBOSESyhAAAA:8 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=VZdTsbspDSk4Eld1VOEA:9 a=gsK-mB7ujOfF2UxA:21 a=XaQdSaMXUD6gfYJ7:21 a=Rzok8Zz9PyN6jWCt:21 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 X-AUTH: ramsayjones@:2500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: <56981DC2.6070706@kdbg.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 14/01/16 22:14, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 14.01.2016 um 19:13 schrieb Ramsay Jones: >> Correct me if I'm wrong (quite possible), but >> _each_ drive has a current working directory associated with >> it in win32, so it's a bit difficult to use drive designators >> with a relative path (eg. C:usr/lib). > > As far as it matters for Git, such a path is still an absolute path, > because it is not anchored at $(pwd). I have been using cygwin on windows since beta-18 (about 1995), in order to avoid most of the horrors of the windows command line, so I'm a little rusty. ;-) You know windows _much_ better than me, so could you please educate me on this point. I tried this (on windows 8.1): ramsay@satellite $ cmd Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600] (c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay>cd junk cd junk C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk>dir dir Volume in drive C is TI31255200A Volume Serial Number is 0024-4AC0 Directory of C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk 15/01/2016 00:23 . 15/01/2016 00:23 .. 15/01/2016 00:23 1 regular 15/01/2016 00:23 sub-1 15/01/2016 00:24 sub-2 1 File(s) 1 bytes 4 Dir(s) 800,988,291,072 bytes free C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk>dir C: dir C: Volume in drive C is TI31255200A Volume Serial Number is 0024-4AC0 Directory of C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk 15/01/2016 00:23 . 15/01/2016 00:23 .. 15/01/2016 00:23 1 regular 15/01/2016 00:23 sub-1 15/01/2016 00:24 sub-2 1 File(s) 1 bytes 4 Dir(s) 800,988,291,072 bytes free C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk>dir C:. dir C:. Volume in drive C is TI31255200A Volume Serial Number is 0024-4AC0 Directory of C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk 15/01/2016 00:23 . 15/01/2016 00:23 .. 15/01/2016 00:23 1 regular 15/01/2016 00:23 sub-1 15/01/2016 00:24 sub-2 1 File(s) 1 bytes 4 Dir(s) 800,988,291,072 bytes free C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk>dir C:\ dir C:\ Volume in drive C is TI31255200A Volume Serial Number is 0024-4AC0 Directory of C:\ 17/09/2015 15:52 cygwin64 05/08/2015 10:10 383 ftconfig.ini 09/04/2014 05:41 Intel 22/08/2013 15:22 PerfLogs 06/10/2015 19:28 Program Files 26/12/2015 14:09 Program Files (x86) 18/05/2014 11:18 0 Recovery.txt 03/12/2013 17:02 Toshiba 25/06/2014 18:15 UBIOS 26/12/2015 14:09 Users 27/08/2015 10:08 Windows 2 File(s) 383 bytes 9 Dir(s) 800,988,299,264 bytes free C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk>dir C:sub-1 dir C:sub-1 Volume in drive C is TI31255200A Volume Serial Number is 0024-4AC0 Directory of C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk\sub-1 15/01/2016 00:23 . 15/01/2016 00:23 .. 15/01/2016 00:23 1 bill 15/01/2016 00:23 1 fred 2 File(s) 2 bytes 2 Dir(s) 800,988,299,264 bytes free C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk>exit exit ramsay@satellite $ ... which seems to contradict what you say above. What am I missing? ATB, Ramsay Jones