On 12/08, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 08.12.2016 um 08:55 schrieb Torsten Bögershausen:
> >Some conversion may be done in mingw.c:
> >https://github.com/github/git-msysgit/blob/master/compat/mingw.c
> >So what I understand, '/' in Git are already converted into '\' if needed ?
>
> Only if needed, and there are not many places where this is the
> case. (Actually, I can't find one place where we do.) In particular,
> typical file accesses does not require the conversion.
That's convenient, that way I don't have to worry about using '\' as a
directory separator instead of '/'.
>
> >It seams that we may wnat a function get_start_of_path(uncpath),
> >which returns:
> >
> >get_start_of_path_win("//?/D:/very-long-path") "/very-long-path"
>
> We have offset_1st_component().
Thanks for letting me know this function exists, that makes my job a bit
easier.
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Brandon Williams
