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Re: Windows and cygwin and drive letters

From: Max Bowsher <maxb_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2004-10-25 14:38:25 CEST

Bantle Armin wrote:
> John Petritis wrote:
>
>> I just cannot get drive letters to work for me under windows.
>> I am running cygwin on both machines
>> This works:
>>
>> svn list svn+ssh-family:///Preserve/svnrepos/inet
>>
>> These fail:
>>
>> svn list svn+ssh-family:///C:/Preserve/svnrepos/inet
>> svn list "svn+ssh-family:///C|/Preserve/svnrepos/inet"
>> svn list svn+ssh-family:"///C|/Preserve/svnrepos/inet"
>> svn list svn+ssh-family:///C\|Preserve/svnrepos/inet
>
> Under cygwin, windows drives are adressed as /cygdrive/<drive letter>/, so
> svn list svn+ssh-family:///cygdrive/c/Preserve/svnrepos/inet
> might work.

Exactly.

Drive letters are allowed in URLs by some win32 special-casing. The cygwin
build of subversion is essentially a unix build, so that special-casing is
not present. (It could be added, but that would require someone to choose to
write the necessary changes).

Max.

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