Files with colons under Cygwin

Hello,

Cygwin does not allow files with colons, I think this is Windows stuff one just can't avoid. If you have files with colons in a git repository and try pulling them on cygwin, the file is empty, its name is truncated and the status is wrong.

linux $ date > a:b linux $ git init linux $ git add a:b linux $ git commit -m test linux $ git push cygwin $ git pull cygwin $ ls -rw-r--r-- 1 funchal funchal 0 Oct 2 15:15 a cygwin $ git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # a nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

Any ideas on what should be done? (for instance, warn when pulling this kind of files on Cygwin)

Has anyone noticed this before?

Regards, -- Giovanni