From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64AA320A1E for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2018 01:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726032AbeLIBjn (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:39:43 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:59310 "EHLO pb-smtp2.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726019AbeLIBjn (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:39:43 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15EE0112FC1; Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:39:41 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=ZGxMwXZ3ub38J+j+bdCZK6iY7lI=; b=qsFBXB 23wYqozdBmm89Bp7xaUlZpa6/1nZkH+wuUSA57WFgsS6EyeL3tXYqLk82alghBA1 jd610qC5XHsbw6Oq3SE9s+gRHhSAMmnyGuPRHV1nGTRbQ1erDi4snyC2nFunXjQb dxq9b+80hipJPQqh3lIUVzY/r8SzvGnjbU1HI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=hQarSdDpuAyduIBaatQAuwV+EFUvNCf2 4dzrrYQuTogCM8+2VxSB+IOYCgVbh47vq9PnNeSVAdRL33l1YIzf/upHXzDz0O5o qk6duB9Qy1nmE+qrpTFBUMGEhXcEvgmAWq3WWNW9DYwlMITy3Hp8RCfrn5+4E3wg FmtUKv2DR50= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E508112FC0; Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:39:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [35.187.50.168]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 83483112FBF; Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:39:40 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: tboegi@web.de Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, svnpenn@gmail.com, johannes.schindelin@gmx.de Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] git clone C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again) References: <5bf18396.1c69fb81.20780.2b1d@mx.google.com> <20181208151109.2097-1-tboegi@web.de> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 10:39:39 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20181208151109.2097-1-tboegi@web.de> (tboegi's message of "Sat, 8 Dec 2018 16:11:09 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4BB026D6-FB53-11E8-ACF8-BFB3E64BB12D-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org tboegi@web.de writes: > - The "DOS" moniker is still used for 2 reasons: > Windows inherited the "drive letter" concept from DOS, > and everybody (tm) familar with the code and the path handling > in Git is used to that wording. Yeah, for the same reason as win32 can refer to their API that is used on platforms that are 64-bit, the fact that the "drive letter" concept came from DOS is so widely ingrained, I do not think it is a beter change to deviate from it. > And, before any cleanup is done, I sould like to ask if anybody > can build the code with VS and confirm that it works, please ? Yup, that is much more important. Thanks.