On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 12:40:14AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

On MinGW the "/dev/null" is translated to "nul" on command-lines, even
though as in this case it'll never end up referring to an actual file.

So on Windows the fix for the previous "example.com" timeout issue in
8354cf752ec (t7610: fix flaky timeout issue, don't clone from
example.com, 2022-11-05) would yield:

  fatal: repo URL: 'nul' must be absolute or begin with ./|../

Let's evade this yet again by prefixing this with "file://", which
makes this pass in the Windows CI.

Thanks very much. I just picked this up on top of my 'ab/t7610-timeout'
branch and pushed it out to ttaylorr/git to double-check your results
against CI. (Not that I don't trust you, of course, but I'm feeling like
I should be extra-cautious ;-)).

Assuming that all looks good, then I'll push out a new version of 'next'
and dependent branches to the usual spots so that we can get 'next' back
to green.

Thanks for working on this so quickly.

Thanks,
Taylor