From: Aaron Cohen <remleduff@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 22:36:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] read_directory(): infrastructure for pathname character set conversion
Message-ID: <727e50150905141536r5f3c4c1ap615166ba71018bf3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0905150018070.26154@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

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