Re: [PATCH 2/2] On Cygwin support both UNIX and DOS style path-names

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Pascal Obry 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 \.

Hmm, if you don't mind escaping it in bash all the time!

> 
>> 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.

Hmm, I wouldn't be too sure of that, either ...

ATB,
Ramsay Jones



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