Windows creates shortnames for all non-8.3 files (see [1]). Hence we
need to disallow all names which could potentially be a shortname for
".git". Example: in an empty directory create a folder "GIT~1". Now you
can't create another folder ".git".
The path "GIT~1" may map to ".git" on Windows. A potential victim to
such an attack first has to initialize a git repository in order to
receive any git commits. Hence the .git folder created by init will get
the shortname "GIT~1". ".git" will only get a different shortname if the
user has created a file "GIT~1" before initialization of the git
repository.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename
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Signed-off-by: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>
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