On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 12:28 PM Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > Thanks for testing. > It looks as if there is more work to be done then just a simple patch. > > My last question for today: > Does > > git clone <source> '/cgdrive/c/my/dir' > > work ? yes - these all work and resolve to same path: git clone <source> /tmp/goawk git clone <source> /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/tmp/goawk git clone <source> /proc/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/tmp/goawk however i would caution that any fix should not rely on "C:", as users are allowed to install to other volumes such as "D:". Perhaps a better solution would be for Git to just take the path as is, rather than converting it to an absolute path?