Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> When asked to open/fopen a path, e.g. "a/b:/c", which does not exist >> on the filesystem, Windows (correctly) fails to open it but sets >> EINVAL to errno > > errno to EINVAL (as of now it sounds as if it is a EINVAL = errno, > which makes no sense to me) > >> because the pathname has characters that cannot be >> stored in its filesystem. >> >> As this is an expected failure, teach is_missing_file_error() helper >> about this case. >> >> This is RFC, > > cc'd people knowledgeable of Windows. This has been resolved I think with J6t/Dscho's patch yesterday. Thanks.