Hi Junio, On Wed, 10 Jul 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> In addition, your `+` scheme will break on Windows once it uses `git.exe` > >> or any other non-MSYS2 helper... > > > > I am not sure what you mean here. Is your git.exe disabled not to > > be able to do this: "git.exe add hello+kitty.txt"? It's not that. The `+` is not allowed on Windows in general. Mind you, I just read up on the details (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Comparison_of_filename_limitations) and it looks as if NTFS actually _allows_ this. Even VFAT allows it, but FAT32 does not. So I guess I retract my objections, as there are probably smarter ideas than building Git for Windows on a FAT32 drive. For aesthetical reasons, I still do not like the convention to append a `+` when appending `.new` would make things clearer, but this is not a hill I am prepared to die on. Ciao, Dscho
