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On Sonntag, 8. Februar 2009, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> For Windows leading // is special indicating a UNC
> path and should not be changed to /.
>
> //foo/bar is different from /foo/bar

Indeed. But stripping the double-dash would bite you only if you are using 
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES or if you tend to call eg. git add with absolute 
paths; and that only if your repository lives in a UNC share, which is a 
rather odd use-case.

In particular, it does *not* affect fetch and push etc. so that you can have a 
remote repository on an UNC share.

-- Hannes