From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF5920357 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 21:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751117AbdGNVxB (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:53:01 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:56031 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751012AbdGNVxB (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:53:01 -0400 Received: from virtualbox ([37.201.192.198]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LevUh-1e0BSp0ijf-00qirc; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:52:56 +0200 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:52:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox To: Paul Smith cc: Kavita Desai , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Git Bash Bug In-Reply-To: <1500066765.25789.111.camel@mad-scientist.net> Message-ID: References: <1500043024.25789.105.camel@mad-scientist.net> <1500044588.25789.109.camel@mad-scientist.net> <1500066765.25789.111.camel@mad-scientist.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.1 (DEB 209 2017-03-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:hJdu4Ph+35nOp7IccIZUT7duvbGGS8EdQgSm4hEQkB34hA3vOPk Y1io+XkHbqHkAigFgEcc7J1PF+OgsJcYeJ7f6NsFwPUvI40WLgtrEDtIYdaVtY8EBg/DiY8 8KyAWrfLaPFZWWvpz8r4Amu8a473jFCxD7i5OjQhBNcANOIkAnrF5mVmijqL22wnR4A1Fvb kJ9mNo9yoGSd0uwbyHu8A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:C3pWV3GA4SU=:sVGwwsFS6C+1iBQlNx9tWb ztWgtDk6ARG2qlknyJJOq4HzKLM+Mtzz9j1r8lHJZ0tU/Be7iOyIyl/UaZG6OxR/RwHl1e92b 9jmX4zTTKHR36O858gieAYE2veD2HidwH03dQR7/Pb7Fl/XY5jY+AjdXFgXE7kRNKr5YzPJwc ggAPI0gsOyAczc6wjnNWkqu7vkBXmS/3F6xmQmW1+HjdZz4SZE0en7Q/HxnOTknRXNIPjsoss 63ZOp2niZLhBCOGRR+gOWXz8Owm5EC9Mx7nOG1zW9rlSV+7qrdvC5PrNGjYRiHuxqPL58y4aV +podXF/yVNYtRUzdEQ1DCT+eXkhsGXDaM/QoBUNQx5jKV/n4YKB55DqTLAOu8QTjC+3YOJLQG vKUNwJAH4g3hP9lFJ8U+ZJ9+UpcXX6j1YfZNi0jjfOnM/U/XxTpoAPXk5Y9UCsjcxX8tEfMXI Hz061T0isWda41HwWW0Ev5DCt0k/D9KY4i2wRLmjssjRJesu0d7KjcVFyYAKL/96zYC6ooL1E UUIpKGLxjpjEotfTiVQh2QQ1anu72NZd+i8EH7zd8AW3kvQsacVHSaGgcn7Z4VQlfRnDPcKx7 YiwRpAjorYixu9LPf8unHrDl/WD1oXyJng9l/SXJB0DdZ1vWAC3LVoe8FsHXfR/UNNaWrhm6T 6gvTDMbVKHMgcnwG010ca/fSLUPMaInrqVgIZP5BlHrytFlmgUwNhLuzWaCxFFRmdKYwTZ5MK Pdn4jfO7Yc71lhTdFaKz7okNhVNXdWG2PV0g6PtC/26UxuKf/XYANSPhgjyEGCdPhmCq5Swg/ FtbED51ClyoujaVs/PAwfRRg4FllT72yK9qK34qWulZ2KpxD3I= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Paul, On Fri, 14 Jul 2017, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 22:33 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > You absolutely have to have /bin and /usr/bin on your PATH, > > > > As Kavita talks about Git Bash, it is probably Git for Windows, for > > which /bin should not be in the PATH but /mingw64/bin or /mingw32/bin > > (depending on the architecture). > > I did check this with my Git for Windows installation before posting. > Mine is older (2.7.0) though so maybe things have changed: > > pds@build-win MINGW64 ~ > $ type -a ls > ls is aliased to `ls -F --color=auto --show-control-chars' > ls is /usr/bin/ls > ls is /bin/ls > ls is /usr/bin/ls > ls is /usr/bin/ls Oh wow ;-) For the record, /bin/ is simply mapped to /usr/bin/. They are not different directories, really. > Clearly I have a lot of duplicates on my PATH now that I notice :) ;-) > I have /mingw64/bin on my PATH as well but looking there it has git, > gettext, edit, a bunch of DLL's, etc. but it doesn't contain ls or > other coreutils programs. Right. The difference between executables in /mingw64/bin/ and in /usr/bin/ is that the latter executables all implicitly link to msys-2.0.dll, i.e. the POSIX emulation layer based on Cygwin. As you probably guessed: the coreutils are all compiled using that POSIX emulation layer. Ciao, Johannes