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error: unable to create file: Illegal byte sequence

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BBBrian Buchalter <bal711@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2018, 03:17 UTC
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I am attempting to repair a git repo which has an illegal byte sequence but am not sure how to proceed. Steps to reproduce: `git clone https://github.com/christopherpow/nes-test-roms.git` results in:

``` Cloning into 'nes-test-roms'... remote: Counting objects: 1049, done. remote: Total 1049 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1049 Receiving objects: 100% (1049/1049), 5.23 MiB | 8.97 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (406/406), done. error: unable to create file other/Duelito - L�eme.txt: Illegal byte sequence fatal: unable to checkout working tree warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed. You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status' and retry the checkout with 'git checkout -f HEAD' ```

Running macOS 10.13.3, git version 2.16.1
Thank you!
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  1. Brian BuchalterFeb 3, 2018
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 3, 2018

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