* Cygwin, git and x: directory
@ 2013-07-12 12:42 Mikko Rapeli
2013-07-12 15:27 ` Mark Levedahl
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mikko Rapeli @ 2013-07-12 12:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin; +Cc: git
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Hi Cygwin and git developers,
Does following scenario show signs of bugs in Cygwin and/or git?
# setup git repo
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir foo && cd foo
$ git init
# create x: directory
$ mkdir x:
$ ls
x:
# create Windows X: drive, cygwin utils can work with both unix and dos style
# path names
$ mkdir c:/temp/bar
$ subst x: c:/temp/bar
$ touch x:/file.txt
$ ls x:/
file.txt
# clean git tree from non-tracked files
$ git clean -d -x -f
Removing x:/
# observe results, git did rm -rf on the X drive instead of the local
# directory named x:
$ ls
x:
$ file x\:
x:: directory
$ ls x:/
ls: cannot access x:/: No such file or directory
$ ls c:/temp/bar
ls: cannot access c:/temp/bar: No such file or directory
$ subst
X:\: => C:\temp\bar
In real life CMake created C: file in a build tree -- which is also a bug
but a separate one -- which resulted in obviously catastrophic results.
-Mikko
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* Re: Cygwin, git and x: directory
2013-07-12 12:42 Cygwin, git and x: directory Mikko Rapeli
@ 2013-07-12 15:27 ` Mark Levedahl
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mark Levedahl @ 2013-07-12 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mikko Rapeli; +Cc: cygwin, git
On 07/12/2013 08:42 AM, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> (please Cc: me in replies, not subscribed to the lists)
>
> Hi Cygwin and git developers,
>
> Does following scenario show signs of bugs in Cygwin and/or git?
>
> # setup git repo
> $ cd /tmp
> $ mkdir foo && cd foo
> $ git init
>
> # create x: directory
> $ mkdir x:
> $ ls
> x:
I would report this on the Cygwin list, not here. Any use of dos file
paths using a Cygwin tool is not recommended, officially only POSIX
paths are supported. If cygwin's Cmake is generating dos style paths,
that is a bug that needs reporting to the Cygwin list. Also, I'm not
sure how the developers will react to mishandling a directory named x:,
but the behaviour you see is a limitation of the Cygwin platform, not of
git.
Mark
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