On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Konrád Lőrinczi <klorin...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...] > But when I clone to a Windows machine I get the following error: [...] > 'iscsi/nodes/iqn.1.com.microsoft:iscsiproxy-target': Invalid argument > warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed. [...] > I understand, that Windows doesn't handle colons on NTFS filesystem, It does, but the colon can only appear once in a pathname, and if it does, it must be at position 2, and then the first character must be in range [a-zA-Z]. That is, the colon can only be used to delimit drive letters from the rest of the pathname. > but I thought GIT should offer some way to solve such problem. IIUC, no one was able to come up with a proper way to deal with an issue like this. Basically, the only doable thing which comes to mind is a special flag for the index entries which, if set, would instruct Git to take the on-filesystem pathname from some other place (supposedly a special area in the index). The next thing is to come up with a way to mangle such filenames (something like that code in NTFS which produces those "8dot3 tilde+number" filenames). And then all the code which works with the index on both sides of it should be taught to use such indirection. Now the problem is that such a change does nothing to the common case -- managing a source code project -- while requiring quite high development cost, new index format etc. So I'm afraid this change is not going to be added until someone sends a patch series implementing it. > Any idea how to fix this? > Maybe using clean/smudge feature? No, the clean/smudge filters only deal with contents, not with names. There are two workarounds though both of which revolve around not checking out stuff. First, you simply can simply avoid checkout if you'll clone into a bare repo. If all you need is to have a backup copy on your Windows machine, this is the way to go. Second, you can employ the so-called "sparse checkouts" which allow to ignore directory hierarchies when checking out stuff. That is, you set up your repo to ignore the "iscsi/nodes" hierarchy and then check out. See [1] for an intro. 1. http://briancoyner.github.io/blog/2013/06/05/git-sparse-checkout/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
