On 6/3/2010 4:20 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 06/03/2010 02:03 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
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.
Because c:/some/path looks like you are asking for protocol:file for
talking to a remote machine, while /cygdrive/c/some/path makes it
obvious that you are asking for a local path, and because git is
compiled to behave in a posix manner.
If drive letters work, great for you. But if they don't, I am not going
to spend any time beating up the source code to make them work. They
are intentionally unsupported here - we prefer posix paths for a reason.
OK, if that is really what is happening. However, that does not seem to
explain the translation of paths that I am seeing.
'/cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My
Builds/CMake-gmake/f/c:/Users/hoffman/Work/My
Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT/objects'
It is using the current directory smashed together with the c: path that
I gave it. I would expect something different if git thought that I
was talking about a remote machine called c:.
Something like this:
$ git clone fooba:/Users/hoffman/Work/My\
Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT a
Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My
Builds/CMake-gmake/a/.git/
ssh: Could not resolve hostname fooba: hostname nor servname provided,
or not known
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Instead I get something like this:
$ git clone c:/Users/hoffman/Work/My\
Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT a
Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My
Builds/CMake-gmake/a/.git/
fatal: failed to open '/cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My
Builds/CMake-gmake/c:/Users/hoffman/Work/My
Builds/CMake-gmake/Tests/ExternalProject/LocalRepositories/GIT/objects':
No such file or directory
Which is failed to open:
/cygdrive/c/current/dir/c:/path/given
I have seen something similar with another program as well. It seems
that something changed in the cygwin dll recently that is affecting the
Path handling with driver letters. I was hoping someone could explain
what changed, so I could work around the change and know what to expect.
I don't think this is an issue specific to git.
Thanks.
-Bill
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