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RE: C: vs /cygdrive/c and git
- From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at acs-inc dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 07:36:14 -0500
- Subject: RE: C: vs /cygdrive/c and git
- References: <4C080E71.5000608@redhat.com>
> From: Eric Blake
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 16:20
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: C: vs /cygdrive/c and git
>
...
>
> If drive letters work, great for you. But if they don't, I am not going
> to spend any time beating up the source code to make them work. They
> are intentionally unsupported here - we prefer posix paths for a reason.
>
> --
> Eric Blake <snip>
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
> volunteer cygwin git maintainer
Less a git issue than one for Cygwin in general, as Cygwin moves
toward more compatibility with Posix names as it moves away from
Windows names, maybe it's time to update the user guide. For
example, it says, "Cygwin supports both Win32- and POSIX-style
paths."
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
The UG then explains how the backslash is not supported in Posix
names. Again, with the move towards Posix compatibility, is this
not an obsolete notion that could be eliminated?
--Ken Nellis