Re: [PATCH 3/3] read_directory(): infrastructure for pathname character set conversion

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On Fri, 15 May 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> 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).

It only does it in the middle of names, so it should be safe. 

That said, it's also meant to be just a temporary debugging aid. I'm fine 
with the '//' part not being merged.

			Linus
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