Am 3/20/2013 18:10, schrieb Junio C Hamano: > Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> >> >> MSYS bash considers the part "/g" in the sed expression "s/./=/g" as an >> absolute path after an assignment, and mangles it to a C:/something >> string. Do not attract bash's attention by avoiding the equals sign. > > If this breakage is about path mangling, I suspect it may be cleaner > to work it around by not using / as the pattern separator, e.g. > > sed -e s!.!=!g Half a year down the road you'd scratch your head why you were not using '/' as separator. As the replacement character is irrelevant here, it's better to exchange that. Therefore, I still prefer my version. > Or perhaps use SHELL_PATH to point at a more reasonable > implementation of shell that does not have such an idiocy? Well, POSIX and DOS paths look inherently different, particularly absolute paths. You can't write a reasonably portable shell script if the shell doesn't help in some way. Not to mention that the supply of POSIX shells on Windows is inherently scarce. -- 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