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From:	Brian Clifton <brian AT clifton DOT me>
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Subject:	Re: git and absolute Windows-style paths
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I agree completely-

Faking out git by wrapping it as a function in your .bashrc would be an ideal approach.  I was the person championing that PR which got rejected, unfortunately. The NPM folks were recommending to use mingw which *is* supported... but I haven't seen any updates to that project since 2013... and I prefer the approach Cygwin takes :)

Eliot, I would be all about taking you up on fixing that psuedo-code example I shared earlier. I have a lot to learn about shell scripting and while I am sure I can figure it out, having help would be extremely appreciated :)

The example I shared in my intro thread:
#####
function git {
    for var in "$@"
    do
        if [[ $var == *":\\"* ]]; then
            $var="$(cygpath $var)" #this doesn't work, but the idea is to do something like this
        fi
    done
    command git "$@"
}
#####
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From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com <cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com> on behalf of Eliot Moss <moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 8:52 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: git and absolute Windows-style paths

On 4/20/2016 11:44 AM, silverwind wrote:
> Hey,
>
>> Does it work if you do:
>>
>> git add c:/test/file
>
> Nope, won't work either. No file is added, exit code 0 is given.
>
>  > I can't immediately see what's going wrong, so I'm going to report this upstream.
>
> Thanks. I came upon this issue through npm which is using these Windows paths for certain git
> operations. Unfortunately, The npm team is very reluctant when it comes to merging Cygwin-specific
> patches, so chances of landing a fix on their side are rather slim.
>
> Is there a public repository for the git package used by Cygwin?

I think that tackling this with a script/function is a better approach ...

Eliot Moss

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