prevent msys shell from translating path-like strings

Question

I'm trying to use docker for windows in msys

docker run -v /c/some/dir:/inside/container ...

gets munged into

c:\\some\\dir;c:\\msys\\inside\\container ...

How do i disable the translation?

Answer 1

It's MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL, see https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki/Porting