Am 5/7/2012 19:27, schrieb Junio C Hamano: > Steven Penny <svnpenn@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I have noticed >> >> git commit uses this path >> >> .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG >> >> git rebase uses this path >> >> /home/Steven/jquery/.git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo >> >> So git commit is using a relative path while git rebase is using absolute path. >> >> This causes problem in Windows if your editor does not understand linux paths, >> e.g. notepad, Notepad2, Notepad++, etc. > > ... the issue is _not_ that the path is > absolute, it is that the path is given as a wrong kind of absolute path. > > Which suggests that "$(cd "$GIT_DIR" && pwd)" must give a full path that > is suitable for the platform, and your platform wants it to be something > like "c:\home\steven\jquery\..."? The problem should be mitigated by be39048a7 (git-sh-setup.sh: Add an pwd() function for MinGW), where the above now returns a Windows-style absolute path, albeit with forward slashes instead of the backslashes. I don't know what "/home/..." is in Steven's case, because it should look more like "/c/home/..." unless it is an MSYS mount point, but even then it should be reported as Windows-style path with the new pwd function. IOW, the problem should be fixed in the next release. -- Hannes -- 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