lördagen den 23 januari 2010 14.09.29 skrev Johannes Sixt: > On Samstag, 23. Januar 2010, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > It seems this function does something unhealthy when you pass a path of > > the form //server/share. On windows dropping the double // at the > > beginning makes it a different path since // is the UNC prefix. > > There is no problem in practice. > > The function returns either the input unmodified, or it strips also at > least one directory component, except when base is only "/" (or "//" or > "///"...). I said in practice, because on Windows it does not make sense > to invoke git with (literally) > > git --git-dir=//server/share/repo.git --work-tree=/ ... > > i.e., without a drive prefix before the slash of --work-tree. Why not? //foo/bar/z is just as valid and useful a path as x:/z. Defining a drive-letter with msysgit is tricky because I have to find one that is available and then also restart every msys bash instance to make msys see it. -- robin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html