Re: Git commit path vs rebase path

Am 5/7/2012 19:27, schrieb Junio C Hamano:

Steven Penny [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I have noticed

git commit uses this path

.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG

git rebase uses this path

/home/Steven/jquery/.git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo

So git commit is using a relative path while git rebase is using absolute path.

This causes problem in Windows if your editor does not understand linux paths,
e.g. notepad, Notepad2, Notepad++, etc.

... the issue is _not_ that the path is
absolute, it is that the path is given as a wrong kind of absolute path.

Which suggests that "$(cd "$GIT_DIR" && pwd)" must give a full path that
is suitable for the platform, and your platform wants it to be something
like "c:\home\steven\jquery\..."?

The problem should be mitigated by be39048a7 (git-sh-setup.sh: Add an
pwd() function for MinGW), where the above now returns a Windows-style
absolute path, albeit with forward slashes instead of the backslashes.

I don't know what "/home/..." is in Steven's case, because it should look
more like "/c/home/..." unless it is an MSYS mount point, but even then it
should be reported as Windows-style path with the new pwd function.

IOW, the problem should be fixed in the next release.

-- Hannes