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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/40] Windows: Local clone must use the drive letter in
 absolute paths.
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:31:00 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> The default of pwd of MSYS's bash and /bin/pwd are to use 
> /c/rest/of/path notation instead of c:/rest/of/path. But the former is 
> not supported by programs that use the standard C runtime (instead of 
> MSYS's runtime). Hence, we must make sure that only drive letter 
> notations are generated by using pwd's -W option.

I guess that this patch will be obsolete when we have builtin clone.  So I 
have no objection to this pretty local workaround until then.

Ciao,
Dscho