How to change the git directory delimiter?

Question

When working inside a windows command prompt, all of my paths indicate director separators with a backslash \, when using GIT commands, all of the paths are instead using forwardslash /. How do I change GIT's output to mirror my command line output?

Example inconsistent directory indicators;

D:\git\demo>git status --s
A  test/subdir/foo.txt

Answer 1

How do I change GIT's output to mirror my command line output?

First, all git commands are executed in a git bash sub-shell, which explains why you see '/'. A '\' is an escape character for a bash session, which is why it is not used in any bash command output.

You would need to use a git wrapper (a git.pat set in your PATH) in order to replace any / by \.

git.bat:

C:\prgs\git\latest\bin\git.exe %*|C:\prgs\git\latest\usr\bin\sed.exe -e 's:/:\\\\:'

Make sure git.bat is set before git.exe in your %PATH%: type where git to check the order in which git(s) are discovered.
And replace C:\prgs\git\latest by the path your Git is installed.

By specifying the full path for git.exe and for sed.exe, you are sure to use the right executable.

Answer 2

Since what you're looking for seems to be not specifically "how do I make Git use \ in file paths" but rather "how do I make Git generate file paths with \", you can pipe the output through sed (which is packaged in Git Bash) like so:

$ git status --s | sed 's/\//\\/g'
 M dir\file.py
?? dir\input001.txt
?? dir\output001.txt

and to avoid typing sed every single time you can configure a Git alias to do it for you:

[alias]
    ws = "!ws() { : git status ; git status --short $@ | sed 's/\\//\\\\/g' ; } && ws"

which will let you do this:

$ git ws
 M dir\file.py
?? dir\input001.txt
?? dir\output001.txt