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Re: Files with colons under Cygwin

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 5, 2008, 09:14 UTC
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2008/10/5 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>:
> So, here is a patch. It basically disallow backslashes and colons in
> file names on Windows (whether it is MinGW or Cygwin).

With this and sparse checkout patch combined it maybe possible to make Git work on these backward filesystems in a saner way: just never checkout the names which the filesystems cannot support on disk and mark them correspondingly in the index. If at all needed, the user can fallback to git-show and git-update-index to see the data and update them in repo. Assumption is that the cases are rare...

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  1. Giovanni FunchalOct 2, 2008
  2. Dmitry PotapovOct 4, 2008
  3. Alex RiesenOct 5, 2008
  4. Alex RiesenOct 5, 2008
  5. Dmitry PotapovOct 5, 2008
  6. Giovanni FunchalOct 5, 2008
  7. Johannes SixtOct 6, 2008
  8. Dmitry PotapovOct 7, 2008
  9. Johannes SixtOct 7, 2008
  10. Joshua JuranOct 7, 2008
  11. correct verify_path for WindowsDmitry Potapov, Oct 7, 2008
  12. Johannes SixtOct 7, 2008
  13. Dmitry PotapovOct 11, 2008
  14. Alex RiesenOct 11, 2008
  15. Dmitry PotapovOct 12, 2008
  16. Alex RiesenOct 12, 2008
  17. Johannes SixtOct 13, 2008
  18. Alex RiesenOct 13, 2008
  19. Alex RiesenOct 7, 2008

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