Re: Cygwin Git with Windows paths

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:34:04AM -0600, Steven Penny wrote:

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:15 AM Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

quoted

But it may be that we need to pull in more stuff, similar to mingw,
to get the C: stuff working, see
"skip_dos_drive_prefix"

And it may even be that we need a special handling for the "\" to be treated
as "/".

If you implement "skip_dos_drive_prefix" similar to mingw,
(rename mingw into cygwin) does

git clone <source> C:/my/dir/
work ?

I added this to "compat/cygwin.h":

    #define has_dos_drive_prefix(path) \
      (isalpha(*(path)) && (path)[1] == ':' ? 2 : 0)
    int mingw_skip_dos_drive_prefix(char **path);
    #define skip_dos_drive_prefix mingw_skip_dos_drive_prefix

and added this to "compat/cygwin.c":

    int mingw_skip_dos_drive_prefix(char **path) {
      int ret = has_dos_drive_prefix(*path);
      *path += ret;
      return ret;
    }

but still, these dont work:

    git clone <source> C:/my/dir
    git clone <source> 'C:\my\dir'

Thanks for testing.
It looks as if there is more work to be done then just a simple patch.

My last question for today:
Does 

git clone <source> '/cgdrive/c/my/dir'

work ?