Re: [PATCH 1/3] C implementation of the 'git' program, take two.

Johannes Schindelin, Wed, Nov 16, 2005 03:18:05 +0100:

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Then, you just prepend it to the PATH, with a : in between (and if the 
pathname has a ":" in it, tough, there's nothing we can do about it).

You mean like "c:/cygwin/git"? Yes, I know, the default is 
"/cygdrive/c/cygwin/git", but there are people out there with ":" in their 
pathname.

and you can't possibly be hinting at "\" as path element separator...

Cygwin rewrites values in PATH (well, poorly: there are things like
"z:.", which admins of another stupid thing, novel netware, are so much
fond of).