Clone on windows fails due to invalid names

[p-bakker]

Hi, trying to clone a Mercurial repo on Windows using git-remote-hg, but it bombs out due to an attempt to create a file who's fileName contains illegal characters for a fileName on Windows (in my case the fileName contains double quotes, but single quotes, slashes, astrixes or questionMarks would have the same issue).

Now, I was wondering if this something that could be made to work properly inside git-remote-hg somehow, for example by escaping those invalid characters and perform the needed mapping, so as a user you don't have to worry about it.

Or should I just bite the bullet and try to fix my repo somehow?

Online resources tell me to configure my git repo to do a sparse checkout, excluding the files causing issues. Can look into this, but it requires to alter the git config file in your repo and since I'm still gloning, I don't have such a repo nor config file yet

[felipec]

We could try to fix this, but first we need to know what is the expected behavior.

How does Mercurial store the files on Windows?

[IngeniousOne]

Hi! I have a solution for this problem. Please look at #79