Hi Torsten, On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > There is something more then just the "tilde" protection going on, [...] Indeed. What is going on is that you build Git yourself, from git.git, while Dmitry obviously used Git for Windows -- which carries a couple of patches on top of upstream git.git. In this particular case, the tilde protection was introduced in https://github.com/msysgit/git/commit/2e2a2d12. Ciao, Johannes