From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: tboegi@web.de, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1/RFC 1/1] 'git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:49:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAXzdLX4jU7+i1W1A_Q1LpPFa1D4FYVPW5rcMnqr_tDHEJn+tw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtvk3tj45.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 7:16 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I wonder if it makes the rest of the code simpler if we stripped
> things like /cygdrive/c here exactly the sam way as we strip C:
> For that, has_dos_drive_prefix() needs to know /cygdrive/[a-z],
> which may not be a bad thing, I guess. Let's read on.
With full paths, Cygwin can traverse drives:
$ cd 'C:\Users'
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/Users
$ cd 'D:\Testing'
$ pwd
/cygdrive/d/Testing
If you strip the drive, you can still navigate within the same drive:
$ cd 'C:\Users'
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/Users
$ cd '\Windows'
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/Windows
but you can no longer traverse drives:
$ cd '\Testing'
sh: cd: \Testing: No such file or directory
So a good first question for me would be: why are we stripping "C:" or similar
in the first place?
> - Is there a point in having cygwin specific variant of these, or
> can we just borrow from mingw version (with some refactoring)?
> Is there a point in doing so (e.g. if mingw plans to move to
> reject forward slashes, attempting to share is pointless).
I would say these could be merged into a "win.h" or similar. Cygwin typically
leans toward the "/unix/style" while MINGW has been more tolerant of
"C:\Windows\Style" and "C:/Mixed/Style" paths, i dont see that changing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-27 2:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-18 15:21 Cygwin Git with Windows paths Steven Penny
2018-11-18 15:41 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-11-18 16:23 ` Steven Penny
2018-11-18 17:15 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-11-18 17:34 ` Steven Penny
2018-11-18 18:28 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-11-18 19:00 ` Steven Penny
2018-11-19 0:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-19 2:11 ` Randall S. Becker
2018-11-19 3:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-19 5:20 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-11-20 0:17 ` Steven Penny
2018-11-20 10:36 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-11-20 12:51 ` Steven Penny
2018-11-19 12:22 ` Randall S. Becker
2018-11-26 17:32 ` [PATCH v1/RFC 1/1] 'git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again) tboegi
2018-11-27 0:35 ` Steven Penny
2018-11-27 1:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-27 2:49 ` Steven Penny [this message]
2018-11-27 5:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-27 6:20 ` Steven Penny
2018-11-27 12:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-28 4:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-28 5:55 ` J.H. van de Water
2018-11-28 8:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-28 9:01 ` Houder
2018-11-28 9:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-27 20:10 ` Achim Gratz
2018-11-27 12:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-28 4:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-27 20:05 ` Achim Gratz
2018-12-07 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] git " tboegi
2018-12-07 21:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-12-08 0:49 ` Steven Penny
2018-12-10 8:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-12-10 12:45 ` Steven Penny
2018-12-11 13:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-12-12 0:42 ` Steven Penny
2018-12-12 7:29 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-12-12 12:40 ` Steven Penny
2018-12-13 3:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-12 13:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-12-12 3:47 ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-12 13:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-12-07 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] offset_1st_component(), dos_drive_prefix() return size_t tboegi
2018-12-07 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Refactor mingw_cygwin_offset_1st_component() tboegi
2018-12-07 22:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-12-08 15:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again) tboegi
2018-12-08 16:24 ` Steven Penny
2018-12-09 1:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-10 8:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-12-11 6:12 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-12-11 13:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-12-11 18:55 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2018-12-15 4:33 ` [PATCH v4 " tboegi
2019-05-02 7:48 ` Achim Gratz
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