Am 15.01.2016 um 01:46 schrieb Ramsay Jones:
On 14/01/16 22:14, Johannes Sixt wrote:
Am 14.01.2016 um 19:13 schrieb Ramsay Jones:
Correct me if I'm wrong (quite possible), but
_each_ drive has a current working directory associated with
it in win32, so it's a bit difficult to use drive designators
with a relative path (eg. C:usr/lib).
As far as it matters for Git, such a path is still an absolute path,
because it is not anchored at $(pwd).
I have been using cygwin on windows since beta-18 (about 1995), in order
to avoid most of the horrors of the windows command line, so I'm a little
rusty. ;-)
You know windows _much_ better than me, so could you please educate me
on this point. I tried this (on windows 8.1):
C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk>dir C:sub-1
dir C:sub-1
Volume in drive C is TI31255200A
Volume Serial Number is 0024-4AC0
Directory of C:\cygwin64\home\ramsay\junk\sub-1
[...]
... which seems to contradict what you say above.
This example is not super-illuminating. You must cd to a directory on a
different drive, say D:\foo, then call dir C:sub-1. The result will be
the directory listing from somewhere deep inside the C: hierarchy, not
from inside D:\foo.
What am I missing?
Git assumes, given a path in $path that is declared to be relative, that
"$path" and "$(pwd)/$path" denote the same thing.
But that does not work when path="C:sub-1". Yeah, "C:sub-1" is relative
to something, but *in general* that something is not $(pwd).
-- Hannes
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