From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1•demon.co.uk>
To: kusmabite@gmail•com
Cc: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry•net>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:26:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E416DC9.2080907@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPQNSYSzsY-CQdi6iJQftsY1ufMpxkax=eQLgopVxMC6LoxfA@mail.gmail.com>
Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry•net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Cygwin is a unix-layer on top of Windows, designed to play by the
> POSIX-rules. So why would you want to support Windows-style paths on
> Cygwin?
>
> If you want a Git that handles Windows paths, use Git for Windows...
Indeed, I have to agree. This takes the cygwin port in the wrong
direction ...
ATB,
Ramsay Jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-09 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-05 16:10 [PATH 0/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names Pascal Obry
2011-08-05 16:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-compat-util: add generic find_last_dir_sep that respects is_dir_sep Pascal Obry
2011-08-05 16:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names Pascal Obry
2011-08-05 17:29 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-08-05 17:35 ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-05 17:39 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-08-05 17:51 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-08-05 18:39 ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-09 17:30 ` Ramsay Jones
2011-08-09 17:26 ` Ramsay Jones [this message]
2011-08-05 17:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-05 17:58 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-08-06 7:01 ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-09 17:24 ` Ramsay Jones
2011-08-09 20:38 ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-11 20:35 ` Ramsay Jones
2011-08-13 17:34 ` Pascal Obry
2011-08-10 2:44 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-08-09 19:47 ` Johannes Sixt
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