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Subject: Re: How to detect CygWin SVN?
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:23:29 +0100
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Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Csaba Raduly <rcsaba AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
>> Question is, why do you think you need to detect it ?
>
> Assuming that I'd like to use the -f option of SVN (commit a list of
> files, which are present in the file given by -f), the contents of the
> file in question are quite different for CygWin SVN (/cygdrive/c/...)
> and a native SVN. (C:\...)

cygpath. Works from the Windows command line as well as bash and its
friends. If you're lucky, cygpath -f does exactly what you want, but it
appears to be undocumented...

>> How about this:
>> cygcheck `which svn` | grep cygwin1.dll
>
> That's another solution that works excellent, if I know that CygWin is
> present ... which I don't.

So use a shell script for Cygwin, and a batch/command file for
non-Cygwin. Set paths accordingly. Done.


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