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

From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:59:50 +0100

On 01/08/2015 11:28 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> 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
>
There is something more then just the "tilde" protection going on, it seems:

torstenbogershausen@TORBOGWM ~/projects/test_tilde (master)
$  ~/projects/git/msysgit/git ls-files
ICON~714.PNG

torstenbogershausen@TORBOGWM ~/projects/test_tilde (master)
$  ~/projects/git/msysgit/git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working directory clean

torstenbogershausen@TORBOGWM ~/projects/test_tilde (master)
$  ~/projects/git/tb/git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working directory clean

torstenbogershausen@TORBOGWM ~/projects/test_tilde (master)
$  ~/projects/git/msysgit/git --version
git version 1.9.2.msysgit.0.2273.gc47d6ec

torstenbogershausen@TORBOGWM ~/projects/test_tilde (master)
$  ~/projects/git/tb/git --version
git version 2.2.1.268.g1e6f5b2

Neither latest msygit nor latest git.git reports a problem with a single 
file
within a short path.
It may be, that the '~' is not accepted in a long path or there are 
"problems"
when a directory is filled with many files, but that is speculation.

Dimitry,
is there a way to make the problem reproducible for other people ?
Either a public demo-repo, or a step-by-step receipe  ?

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