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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git fails with control characters in trunk directory name
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 08:51:29 +0200
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2009/5/11 Hugo Mildenberger <Hugo.Mildenberger@namir.de>:
> 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").