X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C080A98.8090004@kitware.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:03:36 -0400 From: Bill Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: C: vs /cygdrive/c and git Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Can someone explain why if I use c:/some/path as an argument to git clone, it fails. But if I use /cygdrive/c/some/path it works. Here is an example: GIT_TRACE=1 git clone c:/Users/hoffman/Work/My\ Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT foobar trace: built-in: git 'clone' 'c:/Users/hoffman/Work/My Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT' 'foobar' Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My Builds/CMake-gmake/f/foobar/.git/ fatal: failed to open '/cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My Builds/CMake-gmake/f/c:/Users/hoffman/Work/My Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT/objects': No such file or directory Somehow, the path has been duplicated one with /cygdrive/c and one without and the two of the smashed together??? This works: $ GIT_TRACE=1 git clone /cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My\ Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT foobar trace: built-in: git 'clone' '/cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT' 'foobar' Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My Builds/CMake-gmake/f/foobar/.git/ trace: run_command: 'git-upload-pack '\''/cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT'\''' trace: exec: 'sh' '-c' 'git-upload-pack '\''/cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT'\''' 'git-upload-pack '\''/cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT'\''' Any ideas? Thanks. -Bill -- 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