PhpStorm with Git keeps generating files with strange names

Hi there,

PhpStorm 2017.3.2 on Windows 10 recently started to automatically generate files in the project root folder that have strange names like

• 墐ʡ6
• ww翿
• 塸ʂ6
• 㰵恈xw䗉瞎6
• etc.

All of these files contain lines like these:

.git/objects/pack/pack-287d381785947952f7246893011d6fa300ae5390.pack 12
.git/objects/pack/pack-287d381785947952f7246893011d6fa300ae5390.pack 200
.git/objects/pack/pack-287d381785947952f7246893011d6fa300ae5390.pack 387
.git/objects/pack/pack-287d381785947952f7246893011d6fa300ae5390.pack 581
... etc.

So, this looks like an issue correlated to the Git integration.

Does anyone have an idea why that might be happening?

Thanks for your input!

Felix