> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Junio C Hamano
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 3:13 PM
> To: Ben Peart <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] handle lower case drive letters on Windows
> 
> Ben Peart <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <[email protected]>
> > ---
> 
> 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"

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