Subject: Re: Probably a bug with "~" symbol in filenames on Windows 7 x64 in git 1.9.5

From: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 05:28:16 -0500

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 11:06:18AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> ICON~714.PNG is a valid short name for a long name (such as
> 'icon.background.png') because it fits the shortening scheme (8.3 format,
> the base name ends in ~<n>). As this can clash with a validly shortened
> long name, Git for Windows refuses to check out such paths by default.
> 
> If you want the old -- unsafe -- behavior back, just set your
> core.protectNTFS to false (this means that you agree that the incurred
> problems are your own responsibility and cannot be blamed on anybody else
> ;-))

I wonder if it is worth having a "git-only" mode for core.protectNTFS.
Turning it off entirely would make him susceptible to GIT~1 attacks.

-Peff

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