Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

This would break spectacularly in MSys.

How?  If that is the case wouldn't --full-tree break Msys the same way?

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

This would break spectacularly in MSys.

How?  If that is the case wouldn't --full-tree break Msys the same way?

If you want to specify an argument on MSys that starts with a slash, you 
have to provide double slashes, otherwise it gets expanded to the Windows 
path (prefixing with the absolute path of the MSys root).

But this introduces yet another inconcistency: using double slashes 
everywhere else does not work.

Hopefully you see the real reason why it breaks down?  The reason is that 
you try to re-interpret something in a special way that means something 
different.  A path starting with a slash simply does not mean "the root of 
the project".  It means "the root of the file system".

Ciao,
Dscho