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Native windows binaries do not understand posix-like path mapping offered by cygwin. Convert paths to native using "cygpath --windows" before presenting them to p4d. This is done using the AltRoots mechanism of p4. Both the posix and windows forms are put in the client specification, allowing p4 to find its location by native path even though the environment reports a different PWD. Shell operations in tests will use the normal form of $cli, which will look like a posix path in cygwin, while p4 will use AltRoots to match against the windows form of the working directory. This mechanism also handles the symlink issue that was fixed in 23bd0c9 (git p4 test: use real_path to resolve p4 client symlinks, 2012-06-27). Now that every p4 client view has an AltRoots with the real_path in it, explicitly calculating the real_path elsewhere is not necessary. Thanks-to: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> Thanks-to: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> fixup! git p4 test: translate windows paths for cygwin Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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GIT - the stupid content tracker
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"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not
actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a
mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the
dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations
and full access to internals.
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Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-commandname.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with "man gittutorial" or "git help tutorial", and the
documentation of each command with "man git-commandname" or "git help
commandname".
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
("man gitcvs-migration" or "git help cvs-migration" if git is
installed).
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including full documentation and Git related tools.
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To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in
the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are
available at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git and other archival
sites.
The messages titled "A note from the maintainer", "What's in
git.git (stable)" and "What's cooking in git.git (topics)" and
the discussion following them on the mailing list give a good
reference for project status, development direction and
remaining tasks.