C: vs /cygdrive/c and git

Thu Jun 3 21:07:00 GMT 2010

On 6/3/2010 4:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 02:32 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> In that case, git is just blindly treating c: as ./c: - that is, the
> relative file named "c:" in the current directory. Since POSIX allows
> this interpretation, there's no reason for git to special case it and
> try otherwise.
>I am still not convinced....
It seems that if I try git clone c:/foobar
If there is a c:/foobar then it does current_dir/c:/foobar. However, if 
c:/foobar does not exist, it then treats c as a machine name.
$ git clone c:/foobar a
Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My 
Builds/CMake-gmake/a/.git/
ssh: Could not resolve hostname c: hostname nor servname provided, or 
not known
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
$ mkdir c:/foobar
$ git clone c:/foobar a
Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My 
Builds/CMake-gmake/a/.git/
fatal: failed to open '/cygdrive/c/Users/hoffman/Work/My 
Builds/CMake-gmake/c:/foobar/objects': No such file or directory
So, it is not just assuming that c:/foobar is a file named "c:" because 
it must find that c:/foobar exists on the disk before it tries to append 
it to the current directory. If c:/foobar does not exist, then git 
tries a remote machine named c.
Again, I don't think this is git specific, but I would like to 
understand at what level of cygwin this is coming from.
Thanks.
-Bill
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