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Subject: Re: git and absolute Windows-style paths
From: Ray Donnelly <mingw DOT android AT gmail DOT com>
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Ray Donnelly <mingw DOT android AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Here's a patch for git 2.8.1 that I wrote for MSYS2 to address the
> same issue. Because I'd read this thread before I started working on
> it (and generally since it's good to) I kept it in mind to make it
> work for Cygwin in-case you wanted to use it:
>
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/6b7aceea4ad2e5bd28143a2de8c4a0d7453013dc/git/git-2.8.1-Cygwin-Allow-DOS-paths.patch
>
> I'm running the test-suite now which takes an age, but I don't see any
> problems with it so far. I didn't add any tests covering using DOS
> paths though. I've tested it with git add and clone with DOS relative
> and absolute paths.

FYI, the test results were the same before and after this patch.

>
> Best regards,
>
> Ray.
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Eliot Moss <moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu> wrote:
>> On 4/20/2016 7:14 PM, Ernie Rael wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4/20/2016 1:37 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think this will do it:
>>>>
>>>> function git {
>>>>   declare -a ARGS
>>>>   for n in "$@" ; do ARGS+=("$(cygpath -u -- "${n}")") ; done
>>>>   command git "${ARGS[@]}"
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> The reason this is a little more complicated than some other approaches
>>>> might be is that it will also work for arguments that have space, e.g.,
>>>>
>>>> git add "C:/My Documents/foo.doc"
>>>
>>>
>>> Notice that
>>>     IFS=$'\n'; args=($(cygpath -m -- "$@")); IFS=$' \t\n'
>>> also handles arguments with spaces. You don't need the shell for loop.
>>
>>
>> Ok ... but I would save the previous value of IFS and restore it -- never
>> know what a user might be using there ...
>>
>> Best -- E
>>
>>
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