C: vs /cygdrive/c and git

[Bill Hoffman]

On 6/3/2010 4:20 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 02:03 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> Can someone explain why if I use c:/some/path as an argument to git
>> clone, it fails.  But if I use /cygdrive/c/some/path it works.
>
> Because c:/some/path looks like you are asking for protocol:file for
> talking to a remote machine, while /cygdrive/c/some/path makes it
> obvious that you are asking for a local path, and because git is
> compiled to behave in a posix manner.
>
> 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.
>
OK, if that is really what is happening.  However, that does not seem to 
explain the translation of paths that I am seeing.

'/cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My 
Builds/CMake-gmake/f/c:/Users/hoffman/Work/My 
Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT/objects'

It is using the current directory smashed together with the c: path that 
I gave it.   I would expect something different if git thought that I 
was talking about a remote machine called c:.

Something like this:

$ git clone fooba:/Users/hoffman/Work/My\ 
Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT a
Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My 
Builds/CMake-gmake/a/.git/
ssh: Could not resolve hostname fooba: hostname nor servname provided, 
or not known
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Instead I get something like this:

$ git clone c:/Users/hoffman/Work/My\ 
Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT a
Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My 
Builds/CMake-gmake/a/.git/
fatal: failed to open '/cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My 
Builds/CMake-gmake/c:/Users/hoffman/Work/My 
Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT/objects': 
No such file or directory

Which is failed to open:
/cygdrive/c/current/dir/c:/path/given

I have seen something similar with another program as well.   It seems 
that something changed in the cygwin dll recently that is affecting the 
Path handling with driver letters.  I was hoping someone could explain 
what changed, so I could work around the change and know what to expect. 
  I don't think this is an issue specific to git.

Thanks.

-Bill

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