From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:45:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t5813: avoid creating urls that break on cygwin
Message-ID: <20151109154501.GA27224@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20151108095400.GA9448@spirit>

On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 10:54:04AM +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:

> The fake ssh used by this test simply strips ssh://host from the url,
> leaving paths behind that start with //, which cygwin interprets as UNC
> paths, causing the test to fail.

I found the first sentence a little misleading. It is git itself that
strips the URL, isn't it? The problem is that we are feeding a URL with
a bogus path, which the fake ssh then tries to access (but in a way that
happens to work on Unix systems).

-Peff