Due to quirks in the MSYS2 runtime intended to help interpret a command-line as if it had been pre-processed by a shell, the backslashes would be misinterpreted as if they were escape characters. This showed most prominently when trying to clone from a network share, as the path would start with two backslashes. These patches have been carried in Git for Windows for more than one-and-a-half years (in a slightly different, less readable form), and it is time to bring them home. Johannes Schindelin (2): mingw (t5580): document bug when cloning from backslashed UNC paths mingw: special-case arguments to `sh` compat/mingw.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- t/t0061-run-command.sh | 10 +++++ t/t5580-clone-push-unc.sh | 5 +++ 3 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) base-commit: 77556354bb7ac50450e3b28999e3576969869068 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-94%2Fdscho%2Func-path-w-backslashes-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-94/dscho/unc-path-w-backslashes-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/94 -- gitgitgadget
