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Subject:	RE: git and absolute Windows-style paths
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> $ git add C:\\test\\file         <-- this fails despite exit code 0
[Bill Smith] 
Does it work if you do:

git add c:/test/file

We use the mixed mode paths extensively with Cygwin in our environment and it works well.  We have the issue of having to work with non-Cygwin aware Windows programs.

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