On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 07:21:58AM -0800, Steven Penny wrote: > Cygwin programs can handle Unix form paths: > > $ ls /var > cache lib log run tmp > > and also Windows form paths: > > $ ls 'C:\cygwin64\var' > cache lib log run tmp > > However current Cygwin Git cannot: > > $ 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 > > It seems the problem is that Git thinks the Windows form path is relative > because it does not start with "/". A Git Bisect reveals this: > > 05b458c104708141d2fad211d79703b3b99cc5a8 is the first bad commit > commit 05b458c104708141d2fad211d79703b3b99cc5a8 > Author: Brandon Williams <bmw...@google.com> > Date: Mon Dec 12 10:16:52 2016 -0800 > > real_path: resolve symlinks by hand > > The current implementation of real_path uses chdir() in order to resolve > symlinks. Unfortunately this isn't thread-safe as chdir() affects a > process as a whole and not just an individual thread. Instead perform > the symlink resolution by hand so that the calls to chdir() can be > removed, making real_path one step closer to being reentrant. > > Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmw...@google.com> > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> > > This causes problems for any non-Cygwin tools that might call Git: > > http://github.com/golang/go/issues/23155 >
Thanks for the report It seams as if "C:" is not recognized as an absolute path under cygwin. May be it should ? Does the following help ? (fully untested) diff --git a/compat/cygwin.h b/compat/cygwin.h index 8e52de4644..12814e1edb 100644 --- a/compat/cygwin.h +++ b/compat/cygwin.h @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@ int cygwin_offset_1st_component(const char *path); #define offset_1st_component cygwin_offset_1st_component +#define has_dos_drive_prefix(path) \ + (isalpha(*(path)) && (path)[1] == ':' ? 2 : 0)
