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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: git and absolute Windows-style paths
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 22:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5716A9FA.6020407@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <892b8f62-266a-da20-c8f4-4b2b82a66c39@gmail.com>

On 4/19/2016 5:31 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 19/04/2016 22:34, silverwind wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I noticed that Cygwin's git does not seem to correctly process
>> Windows-style paths in at least v2.7.4 and v2.8.1. It may have worked
>> before, but I'm not totally certain.
>
> don't assume cygwin programs are able to process windows path.
> Most don't. Use Posix paths

But I think the OP is correct in pointing out that git should have given 
an error, as it does when a Posix path points to a non-existent file:

$ git add foo
fatal: pathspec 'foo' did not match any files

Ken

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-19 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-19 21:00 silverwind
2016-04-19 21:58 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-04-19 22:28   ` Ken Brown [this message]
2016-04-20 10:28     ` Adam Dinwoodie
2016-04-20  0:49 ` Bill Smith
2016-04-20 15:52   ` silverwind
2016-04-20 16:06     ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-20 16:15       ` Brian Clifton
2016-04-20 18:18         ` Ernie Rael
2016-04-20 20:39         ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-20 21:17           ` Adam Dinwoodie
2016-04-21 19:50             ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-20 23:40           ` Ernie Rael
2016-04-21  0:14             ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-21 15:19               ` Ray Donnelly
2016-04-21 16:01                 ` Ray Donnelly
2016-04-20 16:46       ` silverwind
2016-04-20 16:56         ` Adam Dinwoodie

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