Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Pascal Obry 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. > > Hmm, are you using bash or cmd.exe? Using bash I get the following: > > $ cd src > $ git commut -F c:\tmp\log.txt file.c > fatal: could not read file 'src/c:tmplog.txt': No such file or directory > $ > > Which is what I would expect of (any) posix shell, viz: > > $ ls c:\ > > ^C > $ ls c:\\ > AUTOEXEC.BAT* NTDETECT.COM* WATCOM/ msysgit/ > CMPNENTS/ Program Files/ WINDOWS/ msysgit-old/ > CONFIG.SYS* RECYCLER/ boot.ini* ntldr* > Documents and Settings/ SUPPORT/ cygwin/ pagefile.sys > I386/ SWSTAMP.TXT* cygwintemp/ ssl/ > IO.SYS* System Volume Information/ dm/ uname/ > MSDOS.SYS* TOOLSCD/ dm840/ zlib/ > MSOCache/ VALUEADD/ hiberfil.sys > $ FWIW, I use git on Cygwin and it works quite well. Cygwin supports Windows paths when quoted. So $ ls 'C:\Users\vijay\Desktop' works as expected. This is very useful when you're copying paths from, say, Windows Explorer, to Cygwin. > 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 -- Cheers ~vijay Gnus should be more complicated. -- 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