an option to print slash instead of backslash for stat

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Jun 5 20:15:54 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:02:20PM +0200, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> Alexis S. L. Carvalho wrote, On 06/05/2007 05:54 PM:
> > Help me understand the problem:
> >
> > - what's the problem with using backslashes on windows?
> >   
> 
> It makes it hard/impossible to use modern and powerful tools not yet 
> available out-of-the-box. Such as sh and the Unix tool chain ...
> 
> > - would every windows user want to use slashes?
> >   
> 
> Nope. It works some places, but not everywhere...

This probably wants to be a ui setting.

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