Submitting PRs for packages in the pfSense/FreeBSD-ports repo?
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I ran into the exact same problem with the Windows Git client. It just does not like the FreeBSD-ports repository for some reason (or at least it never worked for me).
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Bill
It doesn't work because there's files in the repo with names reserved by Windows (specifically 'LPR' IIRC) I think its probably a holdover from the DOS days but maybe they're still used internally in Windows.
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You can do all of the pfSense stuff itself in Windows Git Desktop, the FreeBSD ports fails due to the Japanese folder which windows does not like due to some of the folder names.
I use a VM FreeBSD with GUI for the FreeBSD ports. Doing the commits on that is a bit more long winded as it all has to be done from a shell.
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Ideally anything dealing with FreeBSD-ports should happen on a FreeBSD system at some point (either directly or in a secondary capacity) because then you have access to tools like portlint which can check the port structure to ensure it's complete and correct before committing changes, for example it will flag problems with the formatting or content of the Makefile.
