C: vs /cygdrive/c and git

[Nellis, Kenneth]

> From: Eric Blake
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 16:20
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: C: vs /cygdrive/c and git
> 
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> 
> If drive letters work, great for you.  But if they don't, I am not going
> to spend any time beating up the source code to make them work.  They
> are intentionally unsupported here - we prefer posix paths for a reason.
> 
> --
> Eric Blake   <snip>
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
> volunteer cygwin git maintainer

Less a git issue than one for Cygwin in general, as Cygwin moves 
toward more compatibility with Posix names as it moves away from 
Windows  names, maybe  it's time  to update the user guide.  For 
example,  it says,  "Cygwin supports both Win32- and POSIX-style 
paths."

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames

The UG then explains how the backslash is not supported in Posix 
names. Again, with the move towards Posix compatibility, is this 
not an obsolete notion that could be eliminated?

--Ken Nellis