Re: Case sensitivity on Windows for absolute paths.

[Ricky Clarkson <ricky.clarkson@gmail.com>]

Hi Johannes,

$ cd /c/uk-org-netvu/

Ricky@RICKY-XP /c/uk-org-netvu (trunk)
$ cmd
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

c:\uk-org-netvu>

If I run cmd via Start -> Run, then the prompt shows C:\uk-org-netvu>

I also verified this using the Scala interpreter, printing out
System.getProperty("user.dir"), which varied similarly in case
depending on whether I started it from cmd or from Git Bash.

Thanks,
Ricky.

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On 25 April 2010 19:08, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
> On Sonntag, 25. April 2010, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
>> It would be good if git automatically uppercased the drive letter,
>> yes.  However, I found the real root of my problem.  Git Bash
>> (msysgit) sets the working directory to c:\foo for programs launched
>> if the working directory within it is /c/foo.
>
> I don't understand what you mean. Git Bash cannot influence whether git sees
> the drive letter in the working directory in uppercase or lowercase. Unless
> by "working directory" you mean something else than what getcwd() returns.
>
> -- Hannes
>