Hi, with this simple recipe, you get a non-usable repository: mkdir foo cd foo git init --bare repo cd repo git fast-import <<"EOM" commit refs/heads/master committer <foo@xxxxxxx> 0 +0000 data 3 foo M 644 inline foo/.git/bar data 3 baz EOM cd .. git clone repo worktree This actually happened when a user tried to port an SVN repository to a Git repository and had ".git" paths in the SVN repository. Using KDEs svn2git utility fast-import accepted the invalid path, but then when trying to checkout during the clone operation, you get the error message Cloning into 'worktree'... done. error: Invalid path 'foo/.git/bar' and the worktree stays empty. I think fast-import should refuse to import paths Git cannot handle properly later on, so that the migration fails early and the frontend that generates the fast-import stream can be fixed / configured to not include such invalid paths. Regards Björn
