Re: [PATCH 13/19] mingw: outsmart MSYS2's path substitution in t1508

2016-01-25 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Junio, On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Eric Sunshine writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:03 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> The new test hardcodes and promises such an incompatible behaviour, > >> i.e. a request to create "@//b"

Re: [PATCH 13/19] mingw: outsmart MSYS2's path substitution in t1508

2016-01-25 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Junio, On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > > > From: Thomas Braun > > > > > > A string of the form "@/abcd" is considered a file path

Re: [PATCH 13/19] mingw: outsmart MSYS2's path substitution in t1508

2016-01-25 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Junio, On Sun, 24 Jan 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > From: Thomas Braun > > > > A string of the form "@/abcd" is considered a file path > > by the msys layer and therefore translated to a Windows

Re: [PATCH 13/19] mingw: outsmart MSYS2's path substitution in t1508

2016-01-25 Thread Junio C Hamano
Eric Sunshine writes: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:03 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> The new test hardcodes and promises such an incompatible behaviour, >> i.e. a request to create "@//b" results in "@/b" created, only to >> users on MINGW, fracturing

Re: [PATCH 13/19] mingw: outsmart MSYS2's path substitution in t1508

2016-01-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johannes Schindelin writes: > From: Thomas Braun > > A string of the form "@/abcd" is considered a file path > by the msys layer and therefore translated to a Windows path. > > Here the trick is to double the slashes. > > The MSYS2 patch

Re: [PATCH 13/19] mingw: outsmart MSYS2's path substitution in t1508

2016-01-24 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:03 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: >> A string of the form "@/abcd" is considered a file path >> by the msys layer and therefore translated to a Windows path. >> >> Here the trick is to double the