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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: Issues that need to be resolved before 1.7.0-rc1
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:17:42 +0100
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On Montag, 25. Januar 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> There also is a discussion on //server/share path on msysgit, that wa=
s
> started since 288123f (ignore duplicated slashes in make_relative_pat=
h(),
> 2010-01-21). =A0If that commit _breaks_ use case on msysgit that used=
 to
> work, I think the sanest course of action is to revert it...

IFAICS, this patch is not a regression w.r.t. //server/share paths.

The discussion is about that support of //server/share paths in msysgit=
 is=20
poor in general. For example, it is not possible to

  git clone //server/share/repo.git

with different failure modes depending on whether forward slashes or=20
backslashes are used.

-- Hannes