From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Faye-Lund Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 19:39:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1312560614-20772-1-git-send-email-pascal@obry.net> <1312560614-20772-3-git-send-email-pascal@obry.net> <4E3C29D9.5060305@obry.net> Reply-To: kusmabite@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: pascal@obry.net X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 05 19:40:37 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 1QpONw-0002Ma-IQ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:40:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751395Ab1HERkc convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:40:32 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:60445 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750910Ab1HERkb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:40:31 -0400 Received: by ywn13 with SMTP id 13so1820452ywn.19 for ; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:40:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=atux+WiKfCekx8fMU5AdPapkKSVDaWGM7ISmuelGh8w=; b=ur/QPVkTNWWWSC+rdYQfrGFtWvRPoHGSe9Db7Y+GyUAl6yOeaNbvIY8P6RagKHhZgm UDcX7tSA6cjMbQ0YzSmF3somvL3xPbfGTSOp0R5eqXj157hM3VCCw6RY/CUO6J9EFATt VWwI6X7dIpFcpBgbd/iYUjKIKFZCs569vYdzg= Received: by 10.143.76.8 with SMTP id d8mr2277844wfl.400.1312566030104; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.56.65 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:39:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E3C29D9.5060305@obry.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Pascal Obry wrote: > 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 \. > 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 suppor= t \ 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.