Hi folks, (I've never joined a mailing list so please bear with me as I learn how this works)
######## Quick intro ######## My name is Brian, I'm a developer at a hosting company in Arizona, USA and I really enjoy Cygwin. I mostly use it at home and I appreciate all of the work everyone has done. It has made my life easier for sure. ######## Git using Windows paths ######## I saw the email chain regarding Git using Windows paths; I wanted to share that I've been fighting that too. Specifically, npm will fail npm installs because it will try to use the Windows path. I submitted the following PR to fix that: https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/12366 The PR was denied but you can see the patch made and manually apply this yourself. Since it was rejected, I'm trying to find a better way to do this. I am considering a solution by creating a git() function in my bashrc like so: function git { for var in "$@" do if [[ $var == *":\\"* ]]; then $var="$(cygpath $var)" #this doesn't work, but the idea is to do something like this fi done command git "$@" } I wanted to ask what you all think about this approach. Since Cygwin converts the paths, filtering any git input through cygpath makes sense, IMO. With how many folks experience issues w/ git on Cygwin, I'd like to help popularize *some* kind of fix, whatever it might be, since NPM and likely other projects are not willing to support Cygwin. ######## Quick question(s) ######## Is the website source available in git? If so, would folks be open to PRs with styling changes and/or documentation updates? Thanks Brian -- 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
