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Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:09:31 -0800 (PST)
From:	Steven Penny <svnpenn AT gmail DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Subject:	Re: Cygwin Git with Windows paths
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:54:14, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> Personally, I don't see this as a bug; AIUI using Windows style paths
> isn't something that is supported in general in Cygwin, even if it's
> something that works in some circumstances.

It is a bug. Even when you use Unix paths, Cygwin is doing path conversions:

    $ ls /var
    cache  lib  log  run  tmp

    $ strace ls /var | grep -E '(conv_to|normalize)_(posix|win32)_path' | wc
    32     320    3337

So either this code should be pulled out of the Cygwin DLL, or people should
stop saying that its not supported.

> I see you've raised this on the Git mailing list as well, and if the
> upstream Git package starts to handle such paths, I'll take the
> relevant patches. However since I don't consider this a bug, I'm not
> going to raise it myself.

Its not fixed upstream (yet), but a patch is available that fixes the issue:

http://public-inbox.org/git/20181126173252 DOT 1558-1-tboegi AT web DOT de

Note carefully that Windows path handling previously worked with Cygwin Git
until Dec 2016, when a patch was introduced that broke that use case. The patch
in question repairs the path handling so that Unix and Windows paths are both
supported with Cygwin Git again.


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