On 15/01/16 06:34, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Ramsay, > > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Ramsay Jones wrote: > >> 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). >> >> [...] seems to contradict what you say above. >> >> What am I missing? > > The missing bit is: while C:usr/lib is *not* anchored on $(pwd), it is > *still* not an absolute path because it is anchored on the current > directory of the C: drive (the entire idea that some drive state can > change the meaning of "C:usr/lib" makes it a non-absolute one). > > Since this concept -- a path that is neither relative to $(pwd) nor > absolute -- does not exist on Linux, I do not think that Git for Windows > handles this case well at all. Yep, I may not have expressed it very well, but this is what I was trying say! ;-) 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