Re: [PATCH] t0060: loosen overly strict expectations

On 15/01/16 06:34, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi Ramsay,

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Ramsay Jones wrote:

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On 14/01/16 22:14, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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Am 14.01.2016 um 19:13 schrieb Ramsay Jones:

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Correct me if I'm wrong (quite possible), but _each_ drive has a
current working directory associated with it in win32, so it's a bit
difficult to use drive designators with a relative path (eg.
C:usr/lib).

As far as it matters for Git, such a path is still an absolute path,
because it is not anchored at $(pwd).

[...] seems to contradict what you say above.

What am I missing?

The missing bit is: while C:usr/lib is *not* anchored on $(pwd), it is
*still* not an absolute path because it is anchored on the current
directory of the C: drive (the entire idea that some drive state can
change the meaning of "C:usr/lib" makes it a non-absolute one).

Since this concept -- a path that is neither relative to $(pwd) nor
absolute -- does not exist on Linux, I do not think that Git for Windows
handles this case well at all.

Yep, I may not have expressed it very well, but this is what I was trying
say! ;-)

ATB,
Ramsay Jones