From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31975 invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2016 21:58:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31961 invoked by uid 89); 19 Apr 2016 21:58:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*i:sk:892b8f6, H*MI:sk:892b8f6, H*f:sk:892b8f6, hey X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock01.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.241) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:58:22 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id u3JLwKx3014856 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:58:20 -0400 Received: from [10.13.22.4] (65-112-130-194.dia.static.qwest.net [65.112.130.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id u3JLwIKN016781 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:58:19 -0400 Subject: Re: git and absolute Windows-style paths To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <57169662.9060503@gmail.com> <892b8f62-266a-da20-c8f4-4b2b82a66c39@gmail.com> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <5716A9FA.6020407@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 22:28:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <892b8f62-266a-da20-c8f4-4b2b82a66c39@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=X X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00478.txt.bz2 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple