On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html