X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B15868D.7010809@bopp.net> References: <4B15868D.7010809@bopp.net> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:50:43 +1300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [1.7] git-difftool paths unusable by win32 kdiff3 From: David Antliff To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:11, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > David Antliff wrote: >> On the other hand, this command does work: >> >> kdiff3 --auto --L1 "build.xml (A)" --L2 "build.xml (B)" >> c:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/Vc0BZy_build.xml build.xml > > As a fairly simple workaround, you could create a wrapper script which > takes the same set of arguments git difftool gives to kdiff3 and > converts the given file paths using cygpath -w before exec'ing the real > kdiff3. =A0Then you can point to that wrapper by setting the git > configuration variable difftool.kdiff3.path to the path for the wrapper > script. =A0Run "git difftool --help" for more information. Jeremy, thank you for your reply. It's slightly more complicated than this, because I need a way to translate "/tmp" to the Cygwin installation directory. I.e. it's not a simple case of replacing "/tmp" with "c:/tmp" but rather "$CYGWIN_INSTALL_DIR/tmp" and I'm not sure CYGWIN_INSTALL_DIR or anything similar exists. This is because my users have cygwin installed in different places. For example, some have it on "c:\cygwin", others "d:\cygwin" and even "c:\cygwin-1.5" or "c:\cygwin-1.7". I need a general way to determine the Cygwin installation path. Any ideas? Is there a supported way for a script to determine the Cygwin installation directory, perhaps relative to /cygdrive or as a DOS path? -- David. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple