On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:54:14, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
Personally, I don't see this as a bug; AIUI using Windows style paths isn't something that is supported in general in Cygwin, even if it's something that works in some circumstances.
It is a bug. Even when you use Unix paths, Cygwin is doing path conversions: $ ls /var cache lib log run tmp $ strace ls /var | grep -E '(conv_to|normalize)_(posix|win32)_path' | wc 32 320 3337 So either this code should be pulled out of the Cygwin DLL, or people should stop saying that its not supported.
I see you've raised this on the Git mailing list as well, and if the upstream Git package starts to handle such paths, I'll take the relevant patches. However since I don't consider this a bug, I'm not going to raise it myself.
Its not fixed upstream (yet), but a patch is available that fixes the issue: http://public-inbox.org/git/20181126173252.1558-1-tbo...@web.de Note carefully that Windows path handling previously worked with Cygwin Git until Dec 2016, when a patch was introduced that broke that use case. The patch in question repairs the path handling so that Unix and Windows paths are both supported with Cygwin Git again. -- 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
