Re: t6200: avoid path mangling issue on Windows

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

But a _real user_ who wants to use a slash there has no way of doing
so.

Doesn't foo=// do that in the msys world?

"that" refers to...?  Do you mean:

    $ value=/; mycmd key="$value"

    breaks msys, but you can say

    $ value=//; mycmd key="$value"

    instead to pass a value that is a single slash.

then that is not a valid workaround; it would work differently
between Windows (passes one slash?) and everybody else (passes two
slashes).

I do not mean to say the "'' (empty string) and what you want to say
and '' (empty string) concatenated together" I suggested in the
previous message is a workable (let alone the best) proposition, but
if

    $ value=/; mycmd key=''"$value"''

worked as a way to temporarily turn off the path mangling, it at
least would be a usable workaround that would work the same way
between Windows and everybody else.