Repo can't be cloned on Windows - colon in some filenames #109
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* shift focus to Cascoda variant removed most references to the TI variant to avoid confusion. 99.9% of users will have Cascoda based boards; we know everyone with TI. * minor revisions to readme more changes to focus on Cascoda mass productions boards + minor rewording. * change section on profiles to only cover versions * improvements from review
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Take a look at http://latkin.org/blog/2016/07/20/git-for-windows-accidentally-creates-ntfs-alternate-data-streams/ There is a bug against git for windows to try to handle this (and other weird windows filename-related issues). The first link suggests a possible workaround (which might reduce performance on Windows - set core.fscache to 0). |
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as some parts of the repo consist of files which have colons in it, the repo can't be cloned on windows.
even in git bash a
git statusresults in a deletion of files (see below).https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/tree/master/package/network/utils/wwan/files/data
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/tree/master/package/utils/usbmode/data
this is quite a problem if a developer is coning the repo on windows, even if its not his intention to modify the files containing a colon.
it is not about allowing to build on windows but allow a windows developer to clone and edit the project and building it inside vagrant or push it to let a buildserver handle it.
please don't answer with "switch to linux", some... no... many things are not easily changed in companies.
as i am only the devops guy who is setting up the build server and trying to help the developer, i don't know if it is possible the rename this files without a problem, so excuse me for asking if it is simply not possible. a wonfix is sad but ok (but hoping for a fix 😄)
some links i collected im my search:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/git-for-windows/BmSBDmL2fB4
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/msysgit/D4HcHRpxPgU
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tortoisegit-users/w9t79l_HFRw
https://github.com/t-pascal/tortoisegit-colons
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5710525/git-windows-clone-of-svn-repository-tries-to-create-a-folder-name-with-colon-in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34942173/colon-in-a-git-file-name-windows-developers-alarm
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31887697/issue-with-windows-and-git-with-illegal-filenames
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