an option to print slash instead of backslash for stat

[Mads Kiilerich]

Rafael Villar Burke wrote, On 06/05/2007 10:50 PM:
> Is there a reliable way to detect when hg is being run under an msys 
> environment instead of a CMD one?. Detecting cygwin is easy, as 
> sys.platform == "cygwin", but msys uses "win32", as it uses native apps.
>   

If I have understood msys correct, then msys starts native applications 
"exactly" the same was as it would have been done from cmd.exe. There 
might however be a difference I don't know of. 
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/cmake/2005-November/007496.html 
indicates it, but it is probably only that was as long as it is running 
in msys-space.

Sorry; I don't have a msys-capable system so I can't test.

Perhaps a MERCURIALSLASH environment variable would be a good solution. 
Users could set it in their msys .profile or something. (Assuming msys 
environment variables are exported to windows environment variables. But 
then there would probably be other variables available...)

If a user starts a cmd.exe from msys, then it would be his own fault - 
but I guess it would no matter which solution we come up with.

/Mads