Hi, On Fri, 16 May 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Johannes Schindelin schrieb: > > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> David Reiss <dreiss@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> How well would this colon separated list work with msys folks? > > > > Not well at all. At least for the moment, I think setting this variable > > would fail (since it would be rewritten into a Windows-PATH-style string). > > Though honestly, I have no idea what getcwd() does on MinGW. > > We would have to use ';' instead of ':' in longest_prefix(). Then it will > work automatically. Except that it does not ignore case in path names and > drive letters. Hence, the user must set this environment variable to the > precise path name(s). Yes, good point. > > Steffen is working on that rewriting stuff, so maybe it will be a > > non-issue, eventually. > > This will not matter. When we change the code to use is_path_separator() > instead of hard-coded c == ':', then it will work automatically. We do > that already for GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES. You are right, of course. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
