Done: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/1421 I added credit to Jeff in the PR's description. Note that I tried compiling master, but failed due to a reason unrelated to this patch: builtin/checkout.c:24:10: fatal error: fscache.h: No such file or directory Maybe I wasn't building it right. On 5 January 2018 at 02:33, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Isaac, > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, Isaac Shabtay wrote: > >> I cloned git's codebase, applied the four patches on master, built and >> tested on Ubuntu Trusty. (After verifying that master indeed exhibits >> this behaviour on Linux as well. Just checking). >> Seems to work fine. >> I also looked at the code. Most of the patched lines relate to tests, >> and the one for clone.c seems reasonable to me. Added tests seem to >> have very good coverage too. > > Thanks. > >> I qualify everything I had written above by saying that it's my first >> time ever looking at Git's source code. > > We all started at some point. > > Now, if you want to make this easier for me, could you please apply those > patches on top of Git for Windows' master branch and open a Pull Request > at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git? > > Thank you, > Johannes
