1.7.10: git gui reports "cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:\cygwin\lib\git-core\git-gui"

[Eric Blake]

On 02/08/2012 03:25 PM, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
> When I run "git gui", I see the following warning:
> 
> /home/matseitz/My Documents/Presentations
> $ git gui &
> [1] 7172
> /home/matseitz/My Documents/Presentations
> $ cygwin warning:
>   MS-DOS style path detected: C:\cygwin\lib\git-core\git-gui
>   Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /usr/lib/git-core/git-gui
>   CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
> warning.
>   Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>     http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames

That's all thanks to the new cygwin-aware tcl.  I'm working on packaging
a new git release, which should squelch this warning.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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