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Hi folks,

(I've never joined a mailing list so please bear with me as I learn how this works)

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Quick intro
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My name is Brian, I'm a developer at a hosting company in Arizona, USA and I really enjoy Cygwin. I mostly use it at home and I appreciate all of the work everyone has done. It has made my life easier for sure.

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Git using Windows paths
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I saw the email chain regarding Git using Windows paths; I wanted to share that I've been fighting that too. Specifically, npm will fail npm installs because it will try to use the Windows path. I submitted the following PR to fix that:
https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/12366

The PR was denied but you can see the patch made and manually apply this yourself.  Since it was rejected, I'm trying to find a better way to do this. I am considering a solution by creating a git() function in my bashrc like so:
function git {
    for var in "$@"
    do
        if [[ $var == *":\\"* ]]; then
            $var="$(cygpath $var)" #this doesn't work, but the idea is to do something like this
        fi
    done
    command git "$@"
}

I wanted to ask what you all think about this approach. Since Cygwin converts the paths, filtering any git input through cygpath makes sense, IMO. With how many folks experience issues w/ git on Cygwin, I'd like to help popularize *some* kind of fix, whatever it might be, since NPM and likely other projects are not willing to support Cygwin.

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Quick question(s)
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Is the website source available in git? If so, would folks be open to PRs with styling changes and/or documentation updates?

Thanks
Brian

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