Revert "submodules: fix ambiguous absolute paths under Windows"

kasal · gitster · commit 0170a3c6ee7e · 2014-05-08T13:57:11.000-07:00
This reverts commit 4dce7d9, which was originally done to help Windows but was almost immediately reverted in msysGit, and the codebase kept this unnecessary divergence for almost two years. Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -285,9 +285,6 @@ module_clone()
 	# resolve any symlinks that might be present in $PWD
 	a=$(cd_to_toplevel && cd "$gitdir" && pwd)/
 	b=$(cd_to_toplevel && cd "$sm_path" && pwd)/
-	# normalize Windows-style absolute paths to POSIX-style absolute paths
-	case $a in [a-zA-Z]:/*) a=/${a%%:*}${a#*:} ;; esac
-	case $b in [a-zA-Z]:/*) b=/${b%%:*}${b#*:} ;; esac
 	# Remove all common leading directories after a sanity check
 	if test "${a#$b}" != "$a" || test "${b#$a}" != "$b"; then
 		die "$(eval_gettext "Gitdir '\$a' is part of the submodule path '\$b' or vice versa")"
