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diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index a03e40e6e2a6..e6fe810ba98f 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ typedef _sigset_t sigset_t;
 #undef _POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS
 #endif
 
-extern int mingw_core_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb);
+int mingw_core_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb);
 #define platform_core_config mingw_core_config
 
 /*
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static inline void convert_slashes(char *path)
 			*path = '/';
 }
 #define PATH_SEP ';'
-extern char *mingw_query_user_email(void);
+char *mingw_query_user_email(void);
 #define query_user_email mingw_query_user_email
 #if !defined(__MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR) && (!defined(_MSC_VER) || _MSC_VER < 1800)
 #define PRIuMAX "I64u"
@@ -453,6 +453,27 @@ extern char *mingw_query_user_email(void);
 #endif
 
 /**
+ * Verifies that the given path is a valid one on Windows.
+ *
+ * In particular, path segments are disallowed which
+ *
+ * - end in a period or a space (except the special directories `.` and `..`).
+ *
+ * - contain any of the reserved characters, e.g. `:`, `;`, `*`, etc
+ *
+ * - correspond to reserved names (such as `AUX`, `PRN`, etc)
+ *
+ * The `allow_literal_nul` parameter controls whether the path `NUL` should
+ * be considered valid (this makes sense e.g. before opening files, as it is
+ * perfectly legitimate to open `NUL` on Windows, just as it is to open
+ * `/dev/null` on Unix/Linux).
+ *
+ * Returns 1 upon success, otherwise 0.
+ */
+int is_valid_win32_path(const char *path, int allow_literal_nul);
+#define is_valid_path(path) is_valid_win32_path(path, 0)
+
+/**
  * Converts UTF-8 encoded string to UTF-16LE.
  *
  * To support repositories with legacy-encoded file names, invalid UTF-8 bytes
@@ -558,7 +579,7 @@ int xwcstoutf(char *utf, const wchar_t *wcs, size_t utflen);
 
 /*
  * A critical section used in the implementation of the spawn
- * functions (mingw_spawnv[p]e()) and waitpid(). Intialised in
+ * functions (mingw_spawnv[p]e()) and waitpid(). Initialised in
  * the replacement main() macro below.
  */
 extern CRITICAL_SECTION pinfo_cs;
@@ -578,6 +599,16 @@ int wmain(int argc, const wchar_t **w_argv);
 int main(int argc, const char **argv);
 
 /*
+ * For debugging: if a problem occurs, say, in a Git process that is spawned
+ * from another Git process which in turn is spawned from yet another Git
+ * process, it can be quite daunting to figure out what is going on.
+ *
+ * Call this function to open a new MinTTY (this assumes you are in Git for
+ * Windows' SDK) with a GDB that attaches to the current process right away.
+ */
+extern void open_in_gdb(void);
+
+/*
  * Used by Pthread API implementation for Windows
  */
-extern int err_win_to_posix(DWORD winerr);
+int err_win_to_posix(DWORD winerr);