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Subject: Re: git and absolute Windows-style paths
From: Ray Donnelly <mingw DOT android AT gmail DOT com>
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Here's a patch for git 2.8.1 that I wrote for MSYS2 to address the
same issue. Because I'd read this thread before I started working on
it (and generally since it's good to) I kept it in mind to make it
work for Cygwin in-case you wanted to use it:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/6b7aceea4ad2e5bd28143a2de8c4a0d7453013dc/git/git-2.8.1-Cygwin-Allow-DOS-paths.patch

I'm running the test-suite now which takes an age, but I don't see any
problems with it so far. I didn't add any tests covering using DOS
paths though. I've tested it with git add and clone with DOS relative
and absolute paths.

Best regards,

Ray.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Eliot Moss <moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu> wrote:
> On 4/20/2016 7:14 PM, Ernie Rael wrote:
>>
>> On 4/20/2016 1:37 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>>>
>>> I think this will do it:
>>>
>>> function git {
>>>   declare -a ARGS
>>>   for n in "$@" ; do ARGS+=("$(cygpath -u -- "${n}")") ; done
>>>   command git "${ARGS[@]}"
>>> }
>>>
>>> The reason this is a little more complicated than some other approaches
>>> might be is that it will also work for arguments that have space, e.g.,
>>>
>>> git add "C:/My Documents/foo.doc"
>>
>>
>> Notice that
>>     IFS=$'\n'; args=($(cygpath -m -- "$@")); IFS=$' \t\n'
>> also handles arguments with spaces. You don't need the shell for loop.
>
>
> Ok ... but I would save the previous value of IFS and restore it -- never
> know what a user might be using there ...
>
> Best -- E
>
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