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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html