From: Alex Riesen Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 06:51:29 GMT Subject: Re: git fails with control characters in trunk directory name Message-ID: <81b0412b0905112351l126a7c5bh902a7c7748d9a77a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905112208.21017.Hugo.Mildenberger@namir.de> 2009/5/11 Hugo Mildenberger : > Using the mouse to paste a git url from a website into a terminal session in > order to clone the repository, I recently managed to include invisible > control characters into the git trunk directory name. Git has no "trunk". Not in CVS/CVN sense, at least > Consequently, I faced all sort of strange behaviour like git pull not working > (error 2), later on a kernel make which supposedly could not finding a rule > to create the trunk directory and more such inconsistencies. > I then reinstalled git, rcs and so on and also tried unsuccessfully several > git versions. The next morning I looked into the .git/config file and > recognized that the "url" key value within the [remote "origin"] section > contained some control characters: ^J and \n, as fas as I remember. What platform are you on? Can you show your .git/config? > While this was almost entirely my fault, git could possibly apply a filter, > reject such a name or at least issue a warning. Maybe. Or maybe it can just work (well, assuming the user meant to use an url with character you considered "control").