On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Pascal Obry <pascal@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le 05/08/2011 19:29, Erik Faye-Lund a écrit : >> >> 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? > > Because cygwin toolset does support \. > Are you saying that the built-in Cygwin tools (like ls etc) support Windows-style paths (C:\path\to\file)? If that is the case, I completely understand the desire to accept Windows-paths. >> If you want a Git that handles Windows paths, use Git for Windows... > > Note that Windows is a special case as even the Win32 API does support \ and > /, so every tool on Windows seems to handle nicely this. Why not Git, be it > Cygwin/Git. If it does not break anything else. If the Cygwin-tools does not support drive-prefixes (i.e "C:\") but does support both slashes as path-separators, then I agree with the patch but not with the commit message. -- 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