Hi, On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> the latest git.git master includes some trickery in git-am so that it > can be run from a subdirectory: It appends the subdirectory to relative > paths given on the command line (which is the mailbox to be applied). It > does so by testing for an absolute path like this: > > case "$arg" in > /*) > set "$@" "$arg" ;; > *) > set "$@" "$prefix$arg" ;; > esac > > This test for absolute paths does not work on Windows, hence, git-am > can't be called with an absolute path to the mailbox. Thanks for the bug report. > I'm not going to fix this now since I'm not using git-am (not with > absolute paths anyway). > > Question: Do you mind if I push a so regressed mingw.git master, or > would you like that I wait for a fix (that someone among you would have > to provide) that I apply before pushing? I'd rather have it pushed, and mention it in the ReleaseNotes of (Win-) Git, so that anybody who feels inclined can fix it. Thanks, Dscho
