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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle UNC paths everywhere
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:36:59 +0100
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Heya,

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 01:55, Robin Rosenberg
<robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> wrote:
> In Windows paths beginning with // are knows as UNC paths. They are
> absolute paths, usually referring to a shared resource on a server.

Cute, but will it actually work? I've tried to use them // paths on
windows before with MSysGit, and it's never worked, probably due to
the same reason why it doesn't work in the cmd prompt (whatever reason
that may be).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier