On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 3:55 PM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > On Windows, an absolute POSIX path needs to be turned into a Windows > one. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > --- > path.c | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/path.c b/path.c > index 34f0f98349..a72abf0e1f 100644 > --- a/path.c > +++ b/path.c > @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ > #include "path.h" > #include "packfile.h" > #include "object-store.h" > +#include "exec-cmd.h" > > static int get_st_mode_bits(const char *path, int *mode) > { > @@ -709,6 +710,10 @@ char *expand_user_path(const char *path, int real_home) > > if (path == NULL) > goto return_null; > +#ifdef __MINGW32__ > + if (path[0] == '/') > + return system_path(path + 1); > +#endif Should this behavior be documented somewhere, maybe in config.txt? > if (path[0] == '~') { > const char *first_slash = strchrnul(path, '/'); > const char *username = path + 1; > -- > gitgitgadget -- Duy