an option to print slash instead of backslash for stat

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Tue Jun 5 20:30:37 UTC 2007


On 6/5/2007 10:15 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:

>>> - 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.

I guess that if you adjust the default to "/" for msys/cygwin users, you 
probably won't ever need the setting.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo




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