Re: [BUG] Filenames with single colon being treated as remote repository

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Jeff King wrote:

> I don't think that is enough. Something like /path/to/foo:bar would
> trigger !is_url already, but then git_connect fails.

Doh.  Here's another try, still untested.

diff --git i/connect.c w/connect.c
index 49e56ba3..fe13942f 100644
--- i/connect.c
+++ w/connect.c
@@ -504,6 +504,7 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig,
 	int c;
 	struct child_process *conn = &no_fork;
 	enum protocol protocol = PROTO_LOCAL;
+	struct stat st;
 	int free_path = 0;
 	char *port = NULL;
 	const char **arg;
@@ -548,7 +549,8 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig,
 		end = host;
 
 	path = strchr(end, c);
-	if (path && !has_dos_drive_prefix(end)) {
+	if (path && !has_dos_drive_prefix(end) &&
+	    (c != ':' || stat(path, &st))) {
 		if (c == ':') {
 			protocol = PROTO_SSH;
 			*path++ = '\0';