msysgit/msysgit — pull request #161 by svnpenn (2014-02-02 03:55:52+00:00)
Title: fix "start" breaking on ampersand

This has been a long standing problem with MSYS. If you run a command, such as

start 'http://asdf.com?a=1&b=2&c=3'

it will break on each ampersand (&). Cygwin solves this problem by using the cygstart.exe program.