From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:14:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Files with colons under Cygwin
Message-ID: <81b0412b0810050214w15a25e3axfb8bf3ca05ffc215@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081004233945.GM21650@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

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...