From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: MS-DOS path support in CVS
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:21:47 +0100
Message-ID: <NBBBIOJKJBNCHJBEKHLOKEEFCCAA.tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

I've been looking into (re-)adding clean support for
DOS-style paths into CVS.
Would it be acceptable to turn the path I get from the
user (through $CVSROOT, -d or CVS/Root) into a /dev-style
path internally (i.e. X:/Foo/Bar -> /dev/X/Foo/Bar)?
This would have the side effect that
 a) Any messages from CVS regarding the root would
    include the /dev-style path, and
 b) CVS/Root will contain the /dev-style path for newly
    made sandboxes.

The reason I'd do this is that it would require minimal
changes to the code without dropping actual support
for DOS-style paths (yes, I'm lazy; so sue me :-P).