It's remarkable that a bad decision made in 1982 can cause me to waste an
entire day in 2013. Yes, /
vs \
fun time. Even though I long ago
converted git-annex to use the haskell </>
operator wherever it builds
up paths (which transparently handles either type of separator), I still
spent most of today dealing with it. Including some libraries I use that
get it wrong. Adding to the fun is that git uses /
internally, even on
Windows, so Windows separated paths have to be converted when being fed
into git.
Anyway, git annex add
now works on Windows. So does git annex find
,
and git annex whereis
, and probably most query stuff.
Today was very un-fun and left me with a splitting headache, so I will certainly not be working on the Windows port tomorrow.
I feel bad for you, however I respect you for keeping your promise to try and hack on Windows. I had to port over some code than ran beautifully on GNU/Linux and it was more trouble than it was worth. In the end it was never used :P
Cheers!