Beginning with the referenced commit, the git project cannot be checked
out on Cygwin (and I assume cannot be checked out on Windows using
msysgit, though I have not verified this) as this commit introduces the
file "t/5100/nul." On Windows, the file name "nul" is reserved,
regardless of path, and cannot be created or deleted. It serves
essentially the same function as /dev/null.
As a for instance of the troubles:
git>git checkout -f origin/master
Previous HEAD position was a2f5be5... Merge branch
'jk/maint-send-email-compose' into maint
error: git-checkout-index: unable to create file t/t5100/nul (File exists)
As this commit is part of the published master branch, I am not sure the
correct resolution: leaving this commit in place means that any commit
between it and a commit fixing this will always cause an error on Cygwin
/ Windows. Of course, it *is* on the published master branch.
Mark
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