Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit-1.5.5

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:

> On 2/26/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:
> > 
> > > Actually, I didn't test with MinGW port of Git but I would be surprised
> > > if it doesn't work (famous last words ;-)  )
> > 
> > You don't use cygpath to translate between Windows <-> POSIX filenames?
> > 
> > AFAICT this is the single most important user-visible difference 
> > between Cygwin Git and MinGW Git.
> > 
> 
> I call git programs as if they were native windows programs. I run git 
> programs without requiring cygwin shell or something similar.

Actually, what I was getting at is the silly "Drive:\bla" filename syntax 
on Windows boxen. But

- you have to cd to the working directory in order to start the git 
  programs, and
- AFAIK Windows is not stupid enough to forbid "dir/name" syntax.

So, all my objections are invalid.

> I hope I have understood correctly your answer.

Yes ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho

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