Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names

Ramsay Jones [off-list ref] writes:

Pascal Obry wrote:

quoted

In fact Cygwin supports both, so make Git agree with this.
The failing case is when a file is committed in a sub-dir of the
repository using a log message from a file specified with a DOS
style path-name. To reproduce:

   $ cd src
   $ git commit -F c:\tmp\log.txt file.c
   fatal: could not read log file 'src/c:\tmp\log.txt': No such file \
   or directory.

Hmm, are you using bash or cmd.exe? Using bash I get the following:

    $ cd src
    $ git commut -F c:\tmp\log.txt file.c
    fatal: could not read file 'src/c:tmplog.txt': No such file or directory
    $ 

Which is what I would expect of (any) posix shell, viz:

    $ ls c:\
    > ^C
    $ ls c:\\
    AUTOEXEC.BAT*            NTDETECT.COM*               WATCOM/       msysgit/
    CMPNENTS/                Program Files/              WINDOWS/      msysgit-old/
    CONFIG.SYS*              RECYCLER/                   boot.ini*     ntldr*
    Documents and Settings/  SUPPORT/                    cygwin/       pagefile.sys
    I386/                    SWSTAMP.TXT*                cygwintemp/   ssl/
    IO.SYS*                  System Volume Information/  dm/           uname/
    MSDOS.SYS*               TOOLSCD/                    dm840/        zlib/
    MSOCache/                VALUEADD/                   hiberfil.sys
    $ 

FWIW, I use git on Cygwin and it works quite well.  Cygwin supports
Windows paths when quoted.  So

$ ls 'C:\Users\vijay\Desktop'

works as expected.  This is very useful when you're copying paths from,
say, Windows Explorer, to Cygwin.

ATB,
Ramsay Jones

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~vijay

Gnus should be more complicated.