On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 9:11 AM wrote: > Changes since V2: latest patch still fixes original issue - thanks > - Settled on a better name: > The common code is in compat/win32/path-utils.c/h > [...] > - The "DOS" moniker is still used for 2 reasons: > Windows inherited the "drive letter" concept from DOS, > and everybody (tm) familar with the code and the path handling > in Git is used to that wording. > Even if there was a better name, it needed to be addressed > in a patch series different from this one. > Here I want to fix a reported regression. i still disagree with this - but i understand if naming argument is out of scope for thread > And, before any cleanup is done, I sould like to ask if anybody > can build the code with VS and confirm that it works, please ? sorry but i am decidedly *not* interested in doing this. i use cygwin specifically so that i can avoid VS. hopefully someone else will be able to test. cheers