Re: [PATCH] Handle UNC paths everywhere

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] wrote:

Heya,

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 01:55, Robin Rosenberg
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

In Windows paths beginning with // are knows as UNC paths. They are
absolute paths, usually referring to a shared resource on a server.

Cute, but will it actually work? I've tried to use them // paths on
windows before with MSysGit, and it's never worked, probably due to
the same reason why it doesn't work in the cmd prompt (whatever reason
that may be).

This works for me, Vista 64-bit:

C:\Users\kusma>dir \\mongo\code
The request is not supported.

C:\Users\kusma>explorer \\mongo\code
<login on the gui>

C:\Users\kusma>dir \\mongo\code
 Volume in drive \\mongo\code is Code
 Volume Serial Number is 04C3-0225

 Directory of \\mongo\code

10.01.2010  21:39    <DIR>          .
04.01.2010  01:28    <DIR>          ..
04.01.2010  00:51    <DIR>          qt-rocket
10.01.2010  21:38    <DIR>          very_last_64k_ever
11.01.2010  19:57    <DIR>          scratch
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               5 Dir(s)  958 499 627 008 bytes free

C:\Users\kusma>

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Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund