From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 22:19:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] read_directory(): infrastructure for pathname character set conversion
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0905150018070.26154@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905141346440.3343@localhost.localdomain>

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