From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:16:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Illegal filename characters one Windows
Message-ID: <4F8B026D.5070505@kdbg.org>
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