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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Git test failures if and only if Git worktree is outside /home
References: <CA+kUOamhpjh=HUK7hhsmoiTgHSAoHmC9tgFNiOzUie0__wKFTQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:36:52 +0100
In-Reply-To: <CA+kUOamhpjh=HUK7hhsmoiTgHSAoHmC9tgFNiOzUie0__wKFTQ@mail.gmail.com>
 (Adam Dinwoodie's message of "Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:08:00 +0000")
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Adam Dinwoodie writes:
> As part of testing the latest Git release candidate, I've spotted some
> behaviour I don't know where to begin explaining: one of the test
> scripts fails if my Git worktree is at, say, /cygdrive/c/git, but not
> if it's at /home/Adam/git.

I've already answered to your post on the Git mailing list.

> My suspicion is that Cygwin's behaviour is reasonable and this just
> isn't a valid test to run within a /cygdrive/ mountpoint, but that's
> based entirely on history of similar problems rather than any
> understanding of what's going on here. Can someone who has some vague
> understanding of the /cygdrive/ behaviour take a look and see if they
> can work out what's going wrong here?

No, there's something else going on in this case.  the only thing that
/cygdrive should do is to remove any pretenses of (or actual) case
sensitivity, via the posix=0 mount option that is the default for it.


Reghards,
Achim.
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