Re: [PATCH 4/5] Test and fix normalize_path_copy()

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Feb 8, 2009, 08:52 UTC
Message-ID: <200902080952.53478.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <200902080108.50550.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Sonntag, 8. Februar 2009, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> For Windows leading // is special indicating a UNC
> path and should not be changed to /.
>
> //foo/bar is different from /foo/bar

Indeed. But stripping the double-dash would bite you only if you are using GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES or if you tend to call eg. git add with absolute paths; and that only if your repository lives in a UNC share, which is a rather odd use-case.

In particular, it does *not* affect fetch and push etc. so that you can have a remote repository on an UNC share.

-- Hannes