Cygwin Git with Windows paths

[Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>]

Cygwin Git can clone with Unix form paths:

   $ git clone git://github.com/benhoyt/goawk /tmp/goawk
   Cloning into '/tmp/goawk'...
   remote: Enumerating objects: 330, done.

However it fails with Windows form:

   $ git clone git://github.com/benhoyt/goawk 'C:\cygwin64\tmp\goawk'
   Cloning into 'C:\cygwin64\tmp\goawk'...
   fatal: Invalid path '/home/Steven/C:\cygwin64\tmp\goawk': No such file or
   directory

and mixed form:

   $ git clone git://github.com/benhoyt/goawk C:/cygwin64/tmp/goawk
   fatal: Invalid path '/home/Steven/C:/cygwin64': No such file or directory

Note that other Cygwin programs work fine with these forms:

   $ ls 'C:\cygwin64'
   bin         Cygwin.ico           dev  home  sbin  usr
   Cygwin.bat  Cygwin-Terminal.ico  etc  lib   tmp   var

This causes problems for any non-Cygwin tools that might call Git:

http://github.com/golang/go/issues/23155


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