[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" nickname="joey" subject="comment 1" date="2013-06-10T16:22:00Z" content=""" IMHO this is a bug in msysgit. It should support git repositories containing any legal filenames. Luckily, there is another git for Windows that does. It comes with Cygwin. You need Cygwin to build git-annex on Windows, anyway. So, I do not plan to do anything in git-annex to address this. """]]