Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> Is the fact that $global_excludes is specified using an absolute >> path significant to the correctness of this test script? > > Apparently not. So I followed your suggestion and made this independent > of the OS: > > https://github.com/dscho/git/commit/0b9eb308 I see many "cd" in the script, some of which come before the global exclude file is enabled, but others ("--stdin from subdirectory", for example) do run from a subdirectory. It turns out that this file is used as the value of core.excludesfile. By the time that file is read in setup_standard_excludes(), presumably we have already done setup_git_directory() and moved back to the root of the working tree, so I guess such a change would be harmless. It somehow makes me feel dirty, though. But that is not a specific problem to mingw port. -- 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