From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: t6200: avoid path mangling issue on Windows
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:05:22 -0700
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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> But a _real user_ who wants to use a slash there has no way of doing
> so.

Doesn't foo=// do that in the msys world?  If I am reading
mingw/msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc correctly then the way to pass
a true double-slash is foo=///.

Jonathan