Running rsync in Windows using MSYS2 source/dest path formats

I run rsync under Windows using MSYS2 library. I convert Windows source/dest paths to Linux format acceptable by rsync though. Example a path starting with “C:src...” to "/c/src/.."

Example command:

        C:Usersuser1>C:msys64usrbinrsync.exe -avih ^
                     --link-dest="c:/Users/user1/godotback/tps-demo" ^
                      "/c/Users/user1/godot/tps-demo/" "/c/Users/user1/godotback/tps-demo/"

rsync treats c: as if it’s a remote host, but notice this only needs to be done for source and destination paths. The named parameter, --link-dest is unaffected.

My question is there another way to define the paths so I don’t have to convert them to Linux style.