Am 11/14/2012 10:12, schrieb Martin Lichtin: > Maven's release plugin prepares a call Git like in this example: > > cmd.exe /X /C "git commit --verbose -F > C:\cygwin\tmp\maven-scm-915771020.commit pom.xml" > > Git doesn't seem to understand the -F argument and treats it like a > relative path (relative to the repository root): > > $ cmd.exe /X /C "git commit --verbose -F C:\cygwin\tmp\commit pom.xml" > fatal: could not read log file 'mytestdir/C:\cygwin\tmp\commit': No > such file or directory According to the code, this should not happen if you are using msysgit. For this reason, I guess you are using Cygwin git. Right? I don't know what Cygwin programs are supposed to do if they receive an argument that looks like a Windows style absolute path. OTOH, it could be argued that Maven should not treat a Cygwin program like a DOS program, and it should pass the path in the POSIXy form /c/cygwin/tmp/commit or /tmp/commit. -- 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