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Re: cygdrive prefix
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:25:44PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 9/17/2009 12:53 PM:
>> While I'm not suggesting that people should reassign their "cygdrive"
>> prefix
>> to "/", I think the problem you saw in your case is a result of having set
>> CVS up when your setting was still "cygdrive" and the disconnect you get
>> now that it isn't. So I believe you'd see the same problem no matter what
>> you changed "cygdrive" to. Obviously, as you point out, symbolic links are
>> a good alternative in this case.
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>Including 'ln -s / /cygdrive' after changing your mount point, so that /c
>and /cygdrive/c still refer to the same place.
Haven't we already looped several times in this discussion? I don't
think there is any new information that needs to be imparted. Can we
close this down now?
cgf
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