[Cuis-dev] Problem with git clone

[Gerald Klix]

On 3/13/25 1:42 PM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi Maxi,
>
> I tried to reproduce the problem on my Git Bash / Windows 7 
> environment, "git version 2.22.0.windows.1". For some reason, instead 
> of an error message, clone finished successfully but I got a truncated 
> filename: '7045-Ephemeron-mourn-comment-EliotEmilioMiranda-2025Feb21-12'
>
> I renamed the file, pushed the change, tried again and it worked OK.
>
> Please try again now. Thanks for reporting!
>
> Cheers,
>
> On 3/12/2025 11:53 PM, Maximiliano Joel Cabezon Alvarez via Cuis-dev 
> wrote:
>> Hi people! i ' m having problems cloning the repo on Windows. This is 
>> the output using "git bash"
>>
>> maxi at DESKTOP-3OECMF0 MINGW64 /c/tesis/repos
>> $ git clone https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev.git
>> Cloning into 'Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev'...
>> remote: Enumerating objects: 24726, done.
>> remote: Counting objects: 100% (193/193), done.
>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (169/169), done.
>> remote: Total 24726 (delta 80), reused 122 (delta 24), pack-reused 
>> 24533 (from 1)
>> Receiving objects: 100% (24726/24726), 1.15 GiB | 34.29 MiB/s, done.
>> Resolving deltas: 100% (13331/13331), done.
>> error: invalid path 
>> 'CoreUpdates/7045-Ephemeron-mourn-comment-EliotEmilioMiranda-2025Feb21-12:15-eem.001.cs.st 
>> <http://15-eem.001.cs.st>'
>> fatal: unable to checkout working tree
>> warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
>> You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
>> and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'
>>
>> maxi at DESKTOP-3OECMF0 MINGW64 /c/tesis/repos
>> $ git --version
>> git version 2.30.0.windows.1
>>
>>
>>
>> i think this is caused by the ":" in the file 
>> "CoreUpdates/7045-Ephemeron-mourn-comment-EliotEmilioMiranda-2025Feb21-12:15-eem.001.cs.st 
>> <http://15-eem.001.cs.st>"
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>> Maxi
>>
>>
Juan,

Please, do not use colons in filenames.
Although I do not actively use Windows any more,
I still remember that a colon denotes a stream of a file,
as documented here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/streams



HTH

Gerald