Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Pascal Obry <pascal@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In fact Cygwin supports both, so make Git agree with this. >> The failing case is when a file is committed in a sub-dir of the >> repository using a log message from a file specified with a DOS >> style path-name. To reproduce: >> >> $ cd src >> $ git commit -F c:\tmp\log.txt file.c >> fatal: could not read log file 'src/c:\tmp\log.txt': No such file \ >> or directory. > > 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? > > If you want a Git that handles Windows paths, use Git for Windows... Indeed, I have to agree. This takes the cygwin port in the wrong direction ... ATB, Ramsay Jones -- 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