On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 06:07, Steven Penny wrote: > > Cygwin Git can clone with Unix form paths: > > $ git clone git://github.com/benhoyt/goawk /tmp/goawk > Cloning into '/tmp/goawk'... > remote: Enumerating objects: 330, done. > > However it fails with Windows form: > > $ git clone git://github.com/benhoyt/goawk 'C:\cygwin64\tmp\goawk' > Cloning into 'C:\cygwin64\tmp\goawk'... > fatal: Invalid path '/home/Steven/C:\cygwin64\tmp\goawk': No such file or > directory > > and mixed form: > > $ git clone git://github.com/benhoyt/goawk C:/cygwin64/tmp/goawk > fatal: Invalid path '/home/Steven/C:/cygwin64': No such file or directory > > Note that other Cygwin programs work fine with these forms: > > $ ls 'C:\cygwin64' > bin Cygwin.ico dev home sbin usr > Cygwin.bat Cygwin-Terminal.ico etc lib tmp var > > This causes problems for any non-Cygwin tools that might call Git: > > http://github.com/golang/go/issues/23155
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. I acknowledge that this causes problems for non-Cygwin tools using Cygwin Git, but the solution there is to either use Cygwin aware/native versions of those tools, or to use non-Cygwin versions of Git. In particular, I'm wary of fixing this set of interop problem introducing some other problem; I'd prefer Cygwin tools to fail to handle Windows paths entirely than the current situation where "c:" refers to a file of that exact name in the current directory, and "c:\" sometimes refers to a completely different directory, when on *nix systems in general both would refer to files in the current directory. 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. Adam -- 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
