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Subject: Re: Files with colons under Cygwin
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:14:00 +0200
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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...