On Windows, a file name containing a colon is illegal. We should therefore expect the corresponding errno when `fopen()` is called for a path of the form <commit>:.gitattributes. This fixes the symptom reported in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/255 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- attr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/attr.c b/attr.c index 7e2134471cb..a0297088633 100644 --- a/attr.c +++ b/attr.c @@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ static struct attr_stack *read_attr_from_file(const char *path, int macro_ok) int lineno = 0; if (!fp) { - if (errno != ENOENT && errno != ENOTDIR) + if (errno != ENOENT && errno != ENOTDIR && errno != EINVAL) warn_on_inaccessible(path); return NULL; } -- 2.13.0.windows.1