From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Cc: msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Illegal filename characters one Windows
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:16:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8B026D.5070505@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120415000725.GA32140@ecki>
Am 15.04.2012 02:07, schrieb Clemens Buchacher:
> I recently noticed that git does not deal very well with illegal
> filenames on Windows. I have a repository which contains a couple of
> filenames like "Re: some email.eml". On a Windows box, those files get
> truncated to just "Re" during checkout, because ':' is an illegal
> character for filenames on Windows. [1]
This is a issue very similar to files named nul, aux, prn, com1 and the
like; they can't be checked out, either. I've suggested to use sparse
checkout in such cases; other than that, I think we don't have a
solution for it.
-- Hannes
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2012-04-15 0:07 Illegal filename characters one Windows Clemens Buchacher
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