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[PATCH] Eshell does not extend correctly PATH by "." on MS-Windows

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Message #8 received at 36004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Bernhard Rotter <bernhard.rotter <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36004: [PATCH] Eshell does not extend correctly PATH by "." on
 MS-Windows
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 11:33:55 +0300

> From: Bernhard Rotter <bernhard.rotter <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 13:40:02 +0200
> 
> Eshell uses eshell-parse-colon-path to split $PATH. The paths returned have a
> slash appended, so an absolute path can be contructed simply by concatenating
> path and filename. On windows the result list of eshell-parse-colon-path is
> extended further by "." (without a slash).
> 
> This was no problem for me until I wanted to run git in a directory created by
> "git worktree add". When eshell was looking for git it found the file ".git"
> whereas it should have been looking for "./git". The result was an error
> message.

Thanks, pushed to the master branch.

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