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

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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).

How well does the command line hack handle things like

    $ git archive --output=/var/tmp/foo.tar

I have to wonder.

Hopefully you see the real reason why it breaks down?

Yes, Windows' braindamage.  It doesn't invalidate anything I said so far,
but only proves that emulation can go only so far.  I hope msys port can
grok real "path from root" notation on Windows, e.g.

    $ git diff --no-index "C:\My Documents/hello.txt" "D:\goodbye.txt"

(or perhaps "//c/my documents/...", but I do not care about the details).