From 95f12f2b8095f833e1133f4ffb147661640d7cb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 15:41:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] mingw: Prepare the TMP environment variable for shell scripts

When shell scripts access a $TMP variable containing backslashes, they
will be mistaken for escape characters. Let's not let that happen by
converting them to forward slashes.

This fixes t7800 with MSys2.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 compat/mingw.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index b04dad55e1..7cb8939d11 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -2226,6 +2226,18 @@ void mingw_startup()
 			environ[i] = xstrdup(to_free + 6);
 			free(to_free);
 		}
+		if (!strncasecmp(environ[i], "TMP=", 4)) {
+			/*
+			 * Convert all dir separators to forward slashes,
+			 * to help shell commands called from the Git
+			 * executable (by not mistaking the dir separators
+			 * for escape characters).
+			 */
+			char *p;
+			for (p = environ[i]; *p; p++)
+				if (*p == '\\')
+					*p = '/';
+		}
 	}
 	environ[i] = NULL;
 	free(buffer);