From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pascal Obry Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:35:21 +0200 Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net Message-ID: <4E3C29D9.5060305@obry.net> References: <1312560614-20772-1-git-send-email-pascal@obry.net> <1312560614-20772-3-git-send-email-pascal@obry.net> 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: git@vger.kernel.org To: kusmabite@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 05 19:35:33 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 1QpOJ1-00088T-DV for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:35:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753904Ab1HERf0 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:35:26 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:64316 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755806Ab1HERfZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:35:25 -0400 Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so1382916wyf.19 for ; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.4.208 with SMTP id 58mr768983wej.93.1312565723778; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (AVelizy-154-1-101-151.w90-2.abo.wanadoo.fr [90.2.59.151]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id em16sm2450038wbb.67.2011.08.05.10.35.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:35:22 -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 05/08/2011 19:29, Erik Faye-Lund a =E9crit : > Cygwin is a unix-layer on top of Windows, designed to play by the > POSIX-rules. So why would you want to support Windows-style paths on > Cygwin? Because cygwin toolset does support \. > If you want a Git that handles Windows paths, use Git for Windows... Note that Windows is a special case as even the Win32 API does support = \=20 and /, so every tool on Windows seems to handle nicely this. Why not=20 Git, be it Cygwin/Git. If it does not break anything else. --=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