From: Houder <houder@xs4all.nl>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1/RFC 1/1] 'git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:01:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <327181b03df8abfd7194389c9bc21256@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1811280944520.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
On 2018-11-28 09:46, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi J.H.,
>
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, J.H. van de Water wrote:
>
>> > > me@work /cygdrive
>> > > $ ls
>> > > c d
>> > >
>> > > So `/cygdrive` *is* a valid directory in Cygwin.
>> >
>> > That supports the code that does not special case a path that begins
>> > with /cygdrive/ and simply treats it as a full path and freely use
>> > relative path, I guess. Very good point.
>>
>> Please read
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive
>> ( The cygdrive path prefix )
>>
>> .... you can access arbitary drives on your system by using the
>> cygdrive path
>> prefix. The default value for this prefix is /cygdrive ...
>> ....
>>
>> The cygdrive prefix is a >>> virtual directory <<< under which all
>> drives on
>> a system are subsumed ...
>> ....
>>
>> The cygdrive prefix may be CHANGED in the fstab file as outlined above
>> !!!!!
>> ....
>>
>> To simplify scripting, Cygwin also provides a /proc/cygdrive symlink,
>> ...
>>
>> =====
>
> That's all very interesting, but I fail to see the relevance with
> regards
> to the issue at hand, namely whether to special-case `/cygdrive` as a
> special prefix that cannot be treated as directory in Git.
>
> I still maintain that it should not be special-cased, no matter whether
> it
> is a virtual directory or whether it can be renamed to
> `/jh-likes-cygwin`
> or whatever.
Ok. Sorry about the noise.
From your post I got the impression that you believed that there will
always
be a directory called /cygdrive on Cygwin.
My point: it can have a different name.
Regards,
Henri
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-28 9:02 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
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 [this message]
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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