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+[[!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.
+"""]]