How to use Windows network paths with Git Bash

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Florian von Stosch picture Florian von Stosch · Nov 18, 2013 · Viewed 41.4k times · Source

Paths to network resources are denoted in Windows with the \\servername\share\path\to\folder syntax. How does one use such a folder within Git Bash, which uses Unix-style paths?

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protometa picture protometa · May 29, 2014

Actually just cd //servername/share/path/to/folder where //servername/ is followed by at least one shared folder.

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