From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:12:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Copieing git repository to another disk is dangerous ! Especially in combination with remotes set to local repositories !
Message-ID: <20251204051215.GA23486@tb-raspi4>
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR02MB44508B247E4B6EF4F387DA5FB3A6A@AM0PR02MB4450.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 03:59:19AM +0000, Skybuck Flying wrote:

[Skip all the interesting stuff]
> 
> Which leads to the question:
> 
> Can drive letters be avoided in git remotes ?
> 

I think so.
Since a long time Windows supports an UNC path.
They start with a double backslash, followed by the
server and share:

\\server\share\directory\filename.txt
So when you do
net use z: \\server\share

you can do
git clone //server/share/path-to-repo
instead of
git clone z:/path-to-repo

(And git replaces '/' with '\' internally.)

I need to admit that this may be not well-known 
but should work.