On 4 May 2017 at 11:47, Adam Dinwoodie <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Confirmed: the Cygwin project as a general rule doesn't support this > sort of mixing of Windows and Cygwin tools. Either use Python and Git > packages both provided by Cygwin, or both provided by Windows. > > Mixing and matching does work sometimes -- as was apparently the case > with Cygwin Git v2.8.3-1 -- but it requires care and you're generally on > your own with it. MSYS2's git-2.12.1 also works fine, so there must be something different in this build of git that breaks this long-standing capability. Judging from the error-message, it somehow concatenates input & output paths. Isn't this something to research about? Regards, for your continuous effort, Kostis