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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Cc: worldhello.net@gmail.com,
	 Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	 msysGit Mailinglist <msysgit@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Same test-path-utils behaves differently on different Windows systems
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:57:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5256EA82.7020504@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuORD-nTaYVVMt5WJhFnHU4oj0=5WiLXMAMa2Y4mz-vNXg@mail.gmail.com>

Am 10.10.2013 17:52, schrieb Sebastian Schuberth:
> Hi again,
> 
> the problem can also be reproduced in an easier way, independently of
> mingwGitDevEnv and using the mingw_path function instead of
> relative_path. If I install msysGit 1.8.4 from [1] and run
> test-path-utils I get this on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit:
> 
> $ test-path-utils mingw_path /a/b/
> a:/b/
> 
> But if I install [1] on my local Windows 8 64-bit I get:
> 
> $ test-path-utils mingw_path /a/b/
> C:/msysgit/msysGit/a/b/

Interesting. I guess that you get consistent behavior when the first
path component is not merely a single letter, e.g., /foo/bar.

Do you have a drive a: configured somewhere in your MSYS environment on
the 2k8r2 machine? See /etc/fstab. Do you have a floppy drive in that
machine?

-- Hannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-10 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-10 12:13 Same test-path-utils behaves differently on different Windows systems Sebastian Schuberth
2013-10-10 15:52 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-10-10 17:57   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2013-10-10 19:47     ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-10-10 20:04       ` Johannes Sixt
2013-10-10 20:27         ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-10-10 20:47         ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-10-15 14:54 ` wwiser

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