Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again)

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tboegi@xxxxxx writes:

> - 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.

Yeah, for the same reason as win32 can refer to their API that is
used on platforms that are 64-bit, the fact that the "drive letter"
concept came from DOS is so widely ingrained, I do not think it is a
beter change to deviate from it.

> 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 ?

Yup, that is much more important.

Thanks.



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