### Please describe the problem. On windows, path separator of symlinks created by drop command is different than the one created by checkout/update, leading to incorrect git annex status reporting ### What steps will reproduce the problem? Checkout a repo in direct mode on windows, you'll see symlinks as such (using the 'unix' path separator): ../../../.git/annex/objects/p1/GM/SHA256E-s921877--4801f74cb608bdcea1f7f7a50a874865c87d03bc6fff3d16e2b9d216b4c231 ..... etc. get the content, and then drop it, the symlink which is then recreated has different path separator: ..\..\..\.git\annex\objects\p1\GM\SHA256E-s921877--4801f74cb608bdcea1f7f7a50a874865c87d03bc6fff3d16e2b9d216b4c231 ----- etc. resulting in misreported git annex status: git annex statua M dropped.file.name changing the path separator seemingly solves: sed -e 's/\\\/\\//g' dropped.file.name -i git annex dropped.file.name .... nothing reported .... ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? git-annex version: 5.20150128-g2df3a02 running on Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] ### Please provide any additional information below. no additional info. > I see that I broke this some time ago. Fixed it now, and added a test > case. [[done]] --[[Joey]]