> -----Original Message----- > From: Junio C Hamano <jch2...@gmail.com> On Behalf Of Junio C Hamano > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 3:13 PM > To: Ben Peart <ben.pe...@microsoft.com> > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org; sbel...@google.com; johannes.schinde...@gmx.de > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] handle lower case drive letters on Windows > > Ben Peart <ben.pe...@microsoft.com> writes: > > > On Windows, if a tool calls SetCurrentDirectory with a lower case drive > > letter, the subsequent call to GetCurrentDirectory will return the same > > lower case drive letter. Powershell, for example, does not normalize the > > path. If that happens, test-drop-caches will error out as it does not > > correctly to handle lower case drive letters. > > > > Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> > > Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <ben.pe...@microsoft.com> > > --- > > Thanks. Will replace, even though showing the whole Buffer (I am > guessing it is the equivalent of result from getcwd(3) call) and > complaining about drive "letter" feels a bit strange ;-) >
Thanks. I thought it was strange as well until I realized you only see the error message if there _isn't_ a valid drive letter so seeing the entire path makes sense as it will likely be something like "\\server\volume\directory"
