On 12/08, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 08.12.2016 um 08:55 schrieb Torsten Bögershausen: > >Some conversion may be done in mingw.c: > >https://github.com/github/git-msysgit/blob/master/compat/mingw.c > >So what I understand, '/' in Git are already converted into '\' if needed ? > > Only if needed, and there are not many places where this is the > case. (Actually, I can't find one place where we do.) In particular, > typical file accesses does not require the conversion. That's convenient, that way I don't have to worry about using '\' as a directory separator instead of '/'. > > >It seams that we may wnat a function get_start_of_path(uncpath), > >which returns: > > > >get_start_of_path_win("//?/D:/very-long-path") "/very-long-path" > > We have offset_1st_component(). Thanks for letting me know this function exists, that makes my job a bit easier. -- Brandon Williams