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It looks like the root preferences are specified using backslashes, but path and ignore preferences are specified with forward slashes. Whats up with that?

April 26, 2017backslashes forward looks path preferences slashes

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It looks like the root preferences are specified using backslashes, but path and ignore preferences are specified with forward slashes. Whats up with that?

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Unison uses two sorts of paths: native filesystem paths, which use the syntax of the host filesystem, and “portable” paths relative to the roots of the replicas, which always use / to separate the path components. Roots are native filesystem paths; the others are root-relative.