Support msys2 git (fix absolute paths) #175338
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msys2 git returns absolute paths like "/c/Users/johnv/...". Git for Windows returns absolute paths like C:\Users\johnv...". To support both (and likely Cygwin git as well), relative paths are requested from git and then made absolute with path.resolve().
This fixes #143165
To test, install both Git for Windows & msys2 git
After installing msys2, install msys2 git with
pacman -S git
.Once both
git
s are installed, vscode git integration should work with either of the following Usersettings.json
configs (vscode restart required when switching):