Johannes Sixt wrote: > 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. I would argue precisely this! :-D 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