Gitbash appends prefixes to absolute posix paths in command arguments

[berthin]

Did someone experience this?

$ echo "import sys; print(sys.argv)" > test.py
$ python test.py test /dev/de
['test.py', 'test', 'C:/Program Files/Git/dev/de']

Gitbash is adding the C:/Program Files/Git prefix when the command argument is a posix path, for my case the workaround is to use double slash //dev/de, but I am wondering if that is a misconfiguration or if it could be solved somehow.

PS. I dont know how to get the gitbash version, all I can provide is my git version, dont know if that's the same.

$  git --version --build-options
git version 2.20.1.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 7c9fbc07db0e2939b36095df45864b8cda19b64f
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8

[dscho]

See https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/master/ReleaseNotes.md#known-issues:

• If you specify command-line options starting with a slash, POSIX-to-Windows path conversion will kick in converting e.g. "/usr/bin/bash.exe" to "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\bash.exe". When that is not desired -- e.g. "--upload-pack=/opt/git/bin/git-upload-pack" or "-L/regex/" -- you need to set the environment variable MSYS_NO_PATHCONV temporarily, like so:

MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 git blame -L/pathconv/ msys2_path_conv.cc

Alternatively, you can double the first slash to avoid POSIX-to-Windows path conversion, e.g. "//usr/bin/bash.exe".