On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Johannes Sixt <j...@kdbg.org> wrote:
>> So the obvious thing would be to replace /a/b/ with >> /foo/bar/ in the tests, but that just masks the problem, or? > > The strange behavior is not a problem in Git, it is a problem of MSYS. > Using /foo/bar instead of /a/b in Git's test suite is a reasonable > work-around. > > If you mean that you get ../../C:/something from the relative_path > computation, that *is* a problem in Git, which is addressed by the topic > jx/relative-path-regression-fix. Thanks for pointing out that topic to me. As it turn out, it already has a commit to use /foo/bar instead of /a/b [1]. However, it again mixes up MSYS with MinGW in several places. I'll reply to the patch mails. [1] https://github.com/gitster/git/commit/15b0ae73520895caffc2eb65732dbf618fb22c62 -- Sebastian Schuberth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
