allow for home-directory relative access in SFTP URLs. Specifically,

sftp://host/path/to/file

points to path/to/file under the user's home directory.

sftp://host//path/to/file

points to an absolute path on the remote host.

omnisync/transports/sftp.py

@@ -39,7 +39,11 @@ def __init__(self):
     def _get_filename(self, url):
         """Retrieve the local filename from a given URL."""
         split_url = urlfunctions.url_split(url, uses_hostname=self.uses_hostname)
-        return split_url.path
+        # paths are relative unless they start with two //
+        path = split_url.path
+        if len(path) > 1 and path.startswith("/"):
+            path = path[1:]
+        return path
 
     # Transports should also implement the following methods:
     def add_options(self):