Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> If you want to specify an argument on MSys that starts with a slash, you
> have to provide double slashes, otherwise it gets expanded to the Windows
> path (prefixing with the absolute path of the MSys root).
How well does the command line hack handle things like
$ git archive --output=/var/tmp/foo.tar
I have to wonder.
> Hopefully you see the real reason why it breaks down?
Yes, Windows' braindamage. It doesn't invalidate anything I said so far,
but only proves that emulation can go only so far. I hope msys port can
grok real "path from root" notation on Windows, e.g.
$ git diff --no-index "C:\My Documents/hello.txt" "D:\goodbye.txt"
(or perhaps "//c/my documents/...", but I do not care about the details).
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