From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Faye-Lund Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle UNC paths everywhere Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:11:26 +0100 Message-ID: <40aa078e1001250211w2dcc5e97vf89f64f136bd2f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <201001250155.47664.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> Reply-To: kusmabite@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Robin Rosenberg , git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Sixt , Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin To: Sverre Rabbelier X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 25 11:11:42 2010 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 4.50) id 1NZLv3-00045J-8T for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:11:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753241Ab0AYKLa convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:11:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753120Ab0AYKL3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:11:29 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com ([209.85.219.226]:55862 "EHLO mail-ew0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752668Ab0AYKL2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:11:28 -0500 Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so2147255ewy.28 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:11:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+39gtRKDO/eOV3tHAW3ctM4kyRRA0TPSn/V+pcF5p4A=; b=hnOdFGuBnkDEMbdSUeR9rnOahNvhEsMzbIsptwfyctdfgWN80tA2W9yFc4JsWjijHg 9d6ImQrIao1mwZwM5QBtBIM8mg7sz9MA3iBUpLMgeokIlfDuR8hnhBKLWa9Pp59gCfzF zWTT1BktOJuSo9X1/H5afkiDXWrhI60azScM0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RNyIO+yrMdDwPCJLWmoWhexU7xuErkLD6PMYuU/ND4y5CAQLA7/kMRvNmK2YWtzxdY Xvq5iNZqoGSurywXhbyAKx+5S56ZT6h6w85uSy6oqozQ8QYor9jKRDvqnhOxwET1wXwX 2rEY8AgRwxit/tQYTWfz5rDbpCU2zr9ESfwjM= Received: by 10.216.87.79 with SMTP id x57mr5466wee.83.1264414286790; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:11:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Heya, > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 01:55, Robin Rosenberg > wrote: >> In Windows paths beginning with // are knows as UNC paths. They are >> absolute paths, usually referring to a shared resource on a server. > > Cute, but will it actually work? I've tried to use them // paths on > windows before with MSysGit, and it's never worked, probably due to > the same reason why it doesn't work in the cmd prompt (whatever reaso= n > that may be). > This works for me, Vista 64-bit: C:\Users\kusma>dir \\mongo\code The request is not supported. C:\Users\kusma>explorer \\mongo\code C:\Users\kusma>dir \\mongo\code Volume in drive \\mongo\code is Code Volume Serial Number is 04C3-0225 Directory of \\mongo\code 10.01.2010 21:39 . 04.01.2010 01:28 .. 04.01.2010 00:51 qt-rocket 10.01.2010 21:38 very_last_64k_ever 11.01.2010 19:57 scratch 0 File(s) 0 bytes 5 Dir(s) 958=A0499=A0627=A0008 bytes free C:\Users\kusma> --=20 Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund