From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Aaron Cohen <remleduff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] read_directory(): infrastructure for pathname 
	character set conversion
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 18:36:24 -0400
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On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 14 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> The use of "//" as the filesystem path component separator may be odd,
>
> Hopefully it will not bite us on Windows: "//fileserver/x" is different
> from "/fileserver/x" there: the former tries to access the share "x" of
> samba server "fileserver", while the latter will expand to "C:\Program
> Files\Git\fileserver\x" (or wherever you installed Git).
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho

Does this possibly allow using the magic "\\?\" prefix on windows to
avoid file name length restrictions?
-- Aaron