This was fixed in git.git's master some time ago, unfortunately not upstreamed from Git for Windows' patch thicket (my fault, or better put: the fault of the twenty-four hour days not being longer). We carried a regression test on top of the fix, and I can at least contribute that. Johannes Schindelin (1): t5580: verify that alternates can be UNC paths t/t5580-clone-push-unc.sh | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) base-commit: 8104ec994ea3849a968b4667d072fedd1e688642 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-140%2Fdscho%2Ftest-unc-alternates-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-140/dscho/test-unc-alternates-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/140 -- gitgitgadget
