Re: [PATCH] Handle double slashes in make_relative_path()

On Samstag, 23. Januar 2010, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

It seems this function does something unhealthy when you pass a path of the
form //server/share. On windows dropping the double // at the beginning
makes it a different path since // is the UNC prefix.

There is no problem in practice.

The function returns either the input unmodified, or it strips also at least 
one directory component, except when base is only "/" (or "//" or "///"...). 
I said in practice, because on Windows it does not make sense to invoke git 
with (literally)

   git --git-dir=//server/share/repo.git --work-tree=/ ...

i.e., without a drive prefix before the slash of --work-tree.

-- Hannes