path-conversion: Introduce ability to switch off conversion.

When calling windows native apps from MSYS2, the runtime tries to convert commandline arguments by a specific set of rules. See [MinGW wiki] (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Posix_path_conversion). If the user does not want that behavior on a big scale, e.g. inside a bash script, the user can now set the the environment variable `MSYS_NO_PATHCONV` when calling native windows commands. Signed-off-by: 마누엘 <[email protected]>
git-for-windows · Jun 17, 2015 · 3a68b5b · 3a68b5b
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diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/msys2_path_conv.cc b/winsup/cygwin/msys2_path_conv.cc
@@ -342,6 +342,14 @@ path_type find_path_start_and_type(const char** src, int recurse, const char* en
         return NONE;
     }
 
+    /*
+     * Skip path mangling when environment indicates it.
+     */
+    const char *no_pathconv = getenv ("MSYS_NO_PATHCONV");
+
+    if (no_pathconv)
+      goto skip_p2w;
+
     /*
      * Prevent Git's :file.txt and :/message syntax from beeing modified.
      */