Git for Windows v2.25.0-rc2, was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.25.0-rc2

[Johannes Schindelin]

Team,

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> A release candidate Git v2.25.0-rc2 is now available for testing
> at the usual places. It is comprised of 517 non-merge commits
> since v2.24.1, contributed by 70 people, 29 of which are new faces.
>
> The tarballs are found at:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/

The corresponding Git for Windows v2.25.0-rc2 can be found here:

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.25.0-rc2.windows.1

In addition to rebasing Git for Windows' patches from v2.25.0-rc1 onto
v2.25.0-rc2, this also includes the "mingw: safeguard better against
backslashes in file names" fix that I sent upstream in
https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.690.git.git.1578...@gmail.com/

Ciao,
Johannes

[Bryan Turner]

I just wanted to say thank you for the work you've done adding, and
then refining, these backslash checks! The `core.protectNTFS` changes
in 2.24.1 caused some pretty significant fallout with our testing
repositories, multiple of which have invalid trees due to backslashes.
Our Windows tests don't use any of those trees, though, so the checks
were frustratingly rigid (if understandable, I should add).

One further thing we found while trying to make adjustments to our
test suite to account for the 2.24.1 changes was that, for some
actions, we couldn't find a way to make `core.protectNTFS=false`
actually change behavior. For example, using something like `git -c
core.protectNTFS=false fetch /path/on/disk` still failed due to
invalid trees (as has been mentioned on other threads, I believe).

Anyway, thanks again for these early release candidates, and for your
efforts to polish the backslash checks to retain the protections but
loosen the restrictions.

Best regards,
Bryan Turner

>
> Ciao,
> Johannes
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