From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
To: pascal@obry.net
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 19:39:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPQNSYQ9D7NO5cx_o3csAe4bQ40kOd1f5gATUXDb7r4n3GhdA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E3C29D9.5060305@obry.net>
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> wrote:
> Le 05/08/2011 19:29, Erik Faye-Lund a écrit :
>>
>> 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 \.
>
Are you saying that the built-in Cygwin tools (like ls etc) support
Windows-style paths (C:\path\to\file)? If that is the case, I
completely understand the desire to accept Windows-paths.
>> 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 \ and
> /, so every tool on Windows seems to handle nicely this. Why not Git, be it
> Cygwin/Git. If it does not break anything else.
If the Cygwin-tools does not support drive-prefixes (i.e "C:\") but
does support both slashes as path-separators, then I agree with the
patch but not with the commit message.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-05 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-05 16:10 [PATH 0/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names Pascal Obry
2011-08-05 16:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-compat-util: add generic find_last_dir_sep that respects is_dir_sep Pascal Obry
2011-08-05 16:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names Pascal Obry
2011-08-05 17:29 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-08-05 17:35 ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-05 17:39 ` Erik Faye-Lund [this message]
2011-08-05 17:51 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-08-05 18:39 ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-09 17:30 ` Ramsay Jones
2011-08-09 17:26 ` Ramsay Jones
2011-08-05 17:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-05 17:58 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-08-06 7:01 ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-09 17:24 ` Ramsay Jones
2011-08-09 20:38 ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-11 20:35 ` Ramsay Jones
2011-08-13 17:34 ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-10 2:44 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-08-09 19:47 ` Johannes Sixt
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