Re: [RFC/PATCH] Windows tests: let $TRASH_DIRECTORY point to native Windows path

2014-08-27 Thread Duy Nguyen
Ping... On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Karsten Blees wrote: > MSYS programs typically understand native Windows paths (e.g C:/git), but > native Windows programs (including MinGW) don't understand MSYS paths (e.g. > /c/git). > > On Windows, set TRASH_DIRECTORY to the absolute native path so tha

[RFC/PATCH] Windows tests: let $TRASH_DIRECTORY point to native Windows path

2014-07-29 Thread Karsten Blees
MSYS programs typically understand native Windows paths (e.g C:/git), but native Windows programs (including MinGW) don't understand MSYS paths (e.g. /c/git). On Windows, set TRASH_DIRECTORY to the absolute native path so that it can be used more easily in tests. MSYS 'tar -f' interprets everythi