From: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"sbeller@google.com" <sbeller@google.com>,
"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3] handle lower case drive letters on Windows
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:23:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BL0PR2101MB1012EDB64112A8805A2C3D82F4590@BL0PR2101MB1012.namprd21.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr2k8w9n2.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junio C Hamano <jch2355@gmail.com> On Behalf Of Junio C Hamano
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 3:13 PM
> To: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org; sbeller@google.com; johannes.schindelin@gmx.de
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] handle lower case drive letters on Windows
>
> Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com> writes:
>
> > On Windows, if a tool calls SetCurrentDirectory with a lower case drive
> > letter, the subsequent call to GetCurrentDirectory will return the same
> > lower case drive letter. Powershell, for example, does not normalize the
> > path. If that happens, test-drop-caches will error out as it does not
> > correctly to handle lower case drive letters.
> >
> > Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com>
> > ---
>
> Thanks. Will replace, even though showing the whole Buffer (I am
> guessing it is the equivalent of result from getcwd(3) call) and
> complaining about drive "letter" feels a bit strange ;-)
>
Thanks. I thought it was strange as well until I realized you only see the
error message if there _isn't_ a valid drive letter so seeing the entire
path makes sense as it will likely be something like "\\server\volume\directory"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-12 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-11 17:54 [PATCH v1] handle lower case drive letters on Windows Ben Peart
2018-07-11 17:59 ` Stefan Beller
2018-07-11 19:07 ` Ben Peart
2018-07-11 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-11 21:30 ` Ben Peart
2018-07-11 21:41 ` [PATCH v2] " Ben Peart
2018-07-12 13:59 ` [PATCH v1] " Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-12 16:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-12 15:44 ` [PATCH v3] " Ben Peart
2018-07-12 19:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-12 19:23 ` Ben Peart [this message]
2018-07-12 19:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-12 20:09 ` Ben Peart
2018-07-12 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-14 22:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
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