### Please describe the problem. On Windows, I try to "annex get" from a Linux based repository, but it fails with no useful error message. ### What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Create annex (A1) on a Linux system. 2. clone A1 to another annex (A2) on the same file tree (on a mounted USB drive, for example) 3. add A2 as a remote to A1. 4. clone A1 to an annex (A3) on a Windows 7 system. 5. attempt to "git annex get ." 6. annex reports that it can find no repositories, and asks to make one available. ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? Windows 7: 4.20140627-g8a36ec5 (from the git-annex download page) Debian Linux: 3.20120629 (from the package manager) ### Please provide any additional information below. I experienced this bug several times with a plain git-annex install, and the only workaround was removing the unix-style remotes from remote repos. After other hackery to get git-annex working on Windows, I can't currently reproduce the issue. [[!tag moreinfo]]