Hi Hannes,

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Am 13.12.18 um 07:25 schrieb Johannes Sixt:
> > Am 13.12.18 um 03:48 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> > > So,... what's the conclusion?  The patch in the context of my tree
> > > would be a no-op, and we'd need a prerequisite change to the support
> > > function to accompany this patch to be effective?
> > 
> > Correct, that is my conclusion.
> 
> Moreover, there is no problem with your tree to begin with. I cloned into a
> destination without a drive letter:
> 
> C:\>git clone R:\j6t\expat.git \Temp\expat
> Cloning into '\Temp\expat'...
> done.
> 
> and it works fine. If I understood the description in patch 1/2 correctly,
> this should have failed.

Thank you for the analysis. I'll look which patches in Git for Windows
introduced that regression, then, and fold this here patch series into
that one.

Thanks,
Dscho