Answer by David Harvey for How to stop MinGW and MSYS from mangling path...
export MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 was necessary in my case on git-bash on windows (as noted by dx_over_dt above. )
View ArticleAnswer by SiZiOUS for How to stop MinGW and MSYS from mangling path names...
Indeed, in the original MSYS project provided by MinGW.org, there is no way to disable the Posix path conversion.That's why I made a little fork of the msys-core runtime which supports the...
View ArticleAnswer by Igor Mukhin for How to stop MinGW and MSYS from mangling path names...
There is a way to suppress the path translation by setting MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 in Windows Git MSys or MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL="*" in MSYS2.Alternatively, you can set the variable only temporarily just for...
View ArticleAnswer by Steven for How to stop MinGW and MSYS from mangling path names...
Unfortunately putting two forward slashes for this example doesn't work as expected.rsync -rvztn --delete --exclude="/application/logs/" ...I want 'rsync' to exclude files only at /application/logs...
View ArticleAnswer by Gurjeet Singh for How to stop MinGW and MSYS from mangling path...
I just discovered a neat trick to avoid MSYS/MinGW translating the paths for you.If you use double-slash to start the path, then MSYS won't translate the path to DOS format. So in OP's example, the...
View ArticleAnswer by ak2 for How to stop MinGW and MSYS from mangling path names given...
I don't think there's a way to switch this off. MSYS is a fork of an old Cygwin version with a number of tweaks aimed at improved Windows integration, whereby the automatic POSIX path translation when...
View ArticleHow to stop MinGW and MSYS from mangling path names given at the command line
On Windows, I'm cross-compiling a program for ARM/Linux using CodeSourcery's cross-compiler suite. I use MinGW MSYS as my command interpreter, and very often it will mangle my paths and pathnames. For...
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