Re: git fails with control characters in trunk directory name

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

2009/5/12 Hugo Mildenberger <Hugo.Mildenberger@namir.de>:
>> > Last not least, I managed to reproduce the problem almost exactly:
>> >
>> > 1.) hm@localhost git
>> > clone "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-testing.git
>> > "
>> >        (Note the trailing linefeed)
>>
>> That's all the command printed? No "Initialized empty Git repository" line?
>
> hm@localhost /var/tmp $ git clone "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-testing.git
> "
> Initialized empty Git repository in /mnt/hda1/tmp/bluetooth-testing.git
> /.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 1177836, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (189467/189467), done.
> remote: Total 1177836 (delta 982785), reused 1176855 (delta 981880)
> Receiving objects: 100% (1177836/1177836), 288.16 MiB | 1288 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (982785/982785), done.
> Checking out files: 100% (27842/27842), done.
>
> hm@localhost /var/tmp $ ls
> bluetooth-testing.git?   [Note that question mark replacing \n in repository's name]
>

Ok, clone works. Fully and correctly (even if a bit unexpected).

> hm@localhost /var/tmp/bluetooth-testing.git $ make
> make[1]: /mnt/hda1/tmp/bluetooth-testing.git: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/mnt/hda1/tmp/bluetooth-testing.git'.  Stop.

It is just linux build system which does not support compilation in oddly
named directories (which is reasonable, if you ask me).

> hm@localhost /var/tmp/bluetooth-testing.git $ git pull
> fatal: Error in line 2:

That's already fixed. Will send the fix in a minute.