Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes:
> On 09/10/2019 08:53, Magnus Therning wrote: >> I have a vague memory of there being problems using '/' in branch names on >> Windows. Is that still the case? >> >> /M > > I don't believe so for 'normal' situations (here I'm thinking of it as a > directory separator or path component separator). > > There will still be occasional special cases where the different "Operating > systems" and interface layers (MSYS2, bash) get confused by the conversions. > > However if you have a scenario where on a "Linux" system some one has been > perverse and called a branch "HaHaMS:://??" or similar "HaHaMS::\\??", and > included that in the repository as a public branch you are expected to open, > then yes, you almost certainly will hit the MS Windows forbidden > character/filename issues (other problems include the AUX and similar special > filenames). There can also pathname conversion issues where the interface > layer > makes the wrong 'guess'. > > This becomes a social problem. It's the same as creating a windows worktree > that > has a file called README and a directory called README side by side, which is > a > Linux(*nix) D/F conflict failure which Git will throw out (Linux eating the > world, maybe ;-). > > Was there a specific instance or type of problem you were thinking of, in case > my ramblings are misplaced...? Well, I just seem to remember that just a simple case of naming a branch `my/branch/foo` caused problems when I was using msys/mingw (msys2?) a few years ago. I've since not had to work on Windows, so I can't check for myself very easily. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://magnus.therning.org/ I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. — Pablo Picasso -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/87ftk0zoxu.fsf%40therning.org.
