With mvn release:prepare, is it possible to instruct Maven to use a forward slash in the submodule pom locations for the commit command?

[Don Branson]

I'm trying to resolve an issue which I've posted at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17367079/with-mvn-releaseprepare-is-it-possible-to-instruct-maven-to-use-a-forward-slas.
Is this a known issue with Maven+git+Cygwin? Is there a solution?

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Don Branson