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Johannes Schindelin, Wed, Nov 16, 2005 03:18:05 +0100:
> > Then, you just prepend it to the PATH, with a : in between (and if the 
> > pathname has a ":" in it, tough, there's nothing we can do about it).
> 
> You mean like "c:/cygwin/git"? Yes, I know, the default is 
> "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/git", but there are people out there with ":" in their 
> pathname.
> 

and you can't possibly be hinting at "\" as path element separator...

Cygwin rewrites values in PATH (well, poorly: there are things like
"z:.", which admins of another stupid thing, novel netware, are so much
fond of).