On Windows, when using a path like \hello\world, it is silently understood to be absolute, but relative to the current directory's drive. Let's support that, too. Johannes Schindelin (2): mingw: demonstrate a problem with certain absolute paths mingw: allow absolute paths without drive prefix compat/mingw.c | 10 +++++++++- t/t5580-clone-push-unc.sh | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) base-commit: 5d826e972970a784bd7a7bdf587512510097b8c7 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tags/pr-96%2Fdscho%2Fdrive-prefix-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-96/dscho/drive-prefix-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/96 -- gitgitgadget