On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 05:58:18PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > On 4/19/2016 5:31 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > >On 19/04/2016 22:34, silverwind wrote: > >>Hey, > >> > >>I noticed that Cygwin's git does not seem to correctly process > >>Windows-style paths in at least v2.7.4 and v2.8.1. It may have worked > >>before, but I'm not totally certain. > > > >don't assume cygwin programs are able to process windows path. > >Most don't. Use Posix paths > > But I think the OP is correct in pointing out that git should have > given an error, as it does when a Posix path points to a > non-existent file: > > $ git add foo > fatal: pathspec 'foo' did not match any files
I wouldn't expect Windows-style paths to work, but I agree that I'd expect them to error out rather than silently fail. I can't immediately see what's going wrong, so I'm going to report this upstream. Some data points, from some quick experimentation: - `git add 'c:\tmp\file'` silently fails to add `file` if it exists. - `git add 'c:\tmp\file'` correctly errors out if `file` doesn't exist. - `git add 'subdir\file'` (i.e. using relative paths with back-slashes) has the same behaviour. - `git add 'c:/tmp/file'` also shows the same behaviour. Adam -- 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
