On 07/01/2016 06:45 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Windows 'aux.*' is a reserved name and cannot be used for
> filenames; see
>   
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx
> 
> This prevents cloning the QEMU git repo on Windows:
> 
> C:\Java\sources\kvm> git clone https://github.com/qemu/qemu.git
> Cloning into 'qemu'...
> remote: Counting objects: 279563, done.
> remote: Total 279563 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 279563R
> Receiving objects: 100% (279563/279563), 122.45 MiB | 3.52 MiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (221942/221942), done.
> Checking connectivity... done.
> error: unable to create file hw/misc/aux.c (No such file or directory)
> error: unable to create file include/hw/misc/aux.h (No such file or directory)
> Checking out files: 100% (4795/4795), done.
> fatal: unable to checkout working tree
> warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
> You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
> and retry the checkout with 'git checkout -f HEAD'
> 
> (bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1595240)
> 
> Rename the offending files for the benefit of Windows.
> 
> Reported-by: Алексей Курган <akur...@yandex.ru>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>


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