Sorry - it has come to my attention that this link was broken. The real fix is here:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/stow.git/commit/?id=d788ce0c1c59b3158270143659f7a4363da73056 and was originally suggested here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2014-06/msg00000.html