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Developer using Windows cannot clone EasyTomato repo #53

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To reproduce, install git on Windows, and try cloning the EasyTomato repo. It will hit errors that appear to be related to invalid file names. See the command line log below.

Windows does not allow file names containing the colon character: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177506

If the project does not wish to support collaborators who are Windows developers, then it would be helpful if there were a disclaimer to that effect featured prominently in the README or project description.


C:\Users\cho\Documents\GitHub> git clone https://github.com/dmsheril/EasyTomato
Cloning into 'EasyTomato'...
remote: Counting objects: 164209, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (77098/77098), done.
remote: Total 164209 (delta 81339), reused 163798 (delta 80958)
Receiving objects: 100% (164209/164209), 570.49 MiB | 2.31 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (81339/81339), done.
error: unable to create file release/src/router/udev/test/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:09.0 (Invalid argument)
error: unable to create file release/src/router/udev/test/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1e.0 (Invalid argument)
error: unable to create file release/src/router/udev/test/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:05.0 (Invalid argument)
error: unable to create file release/src/router/udev/test/sys/bus/pci/drivers/aic7xxx/0000:02:05.0 (Invalid argument)
error: unable to create file release/src/router/udev/test/sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0 (Invalid argument)
error: unable to create file release/src/router/udev/test/sys/bus/scsi/drivers/sd/0:0:0:0 (Invalid argument)
fatal: cannot create directory at 'release/src/router/udev/test/sys/devices/pci0000:00': Invalid argument

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