Fail to clone iptables,ipset,nftables

Fail to clone iptables,ipset,nftables

[Sunny73Cr]

Hi,

I have run the following command in 'Git Bash' under MINGW64 Windows 11:
`git clone git://git.netfilter.org/nftables 'C:/local/path'`

Output is:
Cloning into 'C:/local/path'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 32813, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (32813/32813), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8468/8468), done.
remote: Total 32813 (delta 26246), reused 30199 (delta 24215), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (32813/32813), 5.34 MiB | 2.08 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (26246/26246), done.
error: invalid path 'src/json.'
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 :/'

I then tried:
`cd 'C:/local/path'`
`git restore --source=HEAD :/`

Output is:
error: invalid path 'src/json.'

I can see '/src/json.' in https://git.netfilter.org/nftables/tree/src?h=master

Is there a way to force this clone in this Windows/MINGW64/Git Bash environment; or should I retry on a *NIX system?

sunny

Re: Fail to clone iptables,ipset,nftables

[Florian Westphal]

Sunny73Cr <Sunny73Cr@protonmail.com> wrote:
> error: invalid path 'src/json.'

There is indeed a bogus file of that name, no idea
why its there or why cygwin git chokes on it.

I removed the file, can you try to pull again?

Re: Trailing dot in Cygwin filenames [was: failed to clone iptables,ipset,nftables]

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Friday 2025-04-25 08:22, Florian Westphal wrote:

>Sunny73Cr <Sunny73Cr@protonmail.com> wrote:
>> error: invalid path 'src/json.'
>
>There is indeed a bogus file of that name, no idea
>why its there or why cygwin git chokes on it.

There is some prior record -
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/6968

"foo" and "foo." are equivalent in DOS, and there is a normalization
phase from "foo." to "foo". This carried forward into contemporary
Windows cmd.exe, explorer.exe (File Explorer), the usual file access
APIs.

	echo abc >x
	echo def >y.

creates "y" not "y." in cmd.

But Cygwin does something unusual, it *actually* creates a file with
the 2-char sequence "y.", through whatever means. Explorer *shows* it
with the dot, but practially no application other than Cygwin can
open it, because all normal APIs and fs lookup mechanisms are
rummaging for "y" as per the earlier equivalance, and either

1. there is no file "y", so some programs can/may/will throw an error
2. or, come to think of it, there is an evil file (hi oss-security)

  [in cgwin]
  echo good >y
  echo evil >y.

If you now try to open "y." with notepad.exe from Explorer, you always 
get the "good" variant. Only inside Cygwin, e.g. with cat.exe, can "y" 
be distinguished from "y.".

Re: [oss-security] Re: Trailing dot in Cygwin filenames [was: failed to clone iptables,ipset,nftables]

[Werner Koch]

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Hi!

> But Cygwin does something unusual, it *actually* creates a file with
> the 2-char sequence "y.", through whatever means. Explorer *shows* it

  C:\Users\dd9jn\test>echo foo >x.
  
  C:\Users\dd9jn\test>dir
  [...]
  28.04.2025  11:30                 6 x
                 1 Datei(en),              6 Bytes
  
  C:\Users\dd9jn\test>echo foo >\\?\\c:\users\dd9jn\test\x.
  
  C:\Users\dd9jn\test>dir
  [...]
  28.04.2025  11:30                 6 x
  28.04.2025  11:30                 6 x.
                 2 Datei(en),             12 Bytes
  
Thus you can create such a file using the Extended Path Length Prefix
which bypasses the mapping used by CreateFile.  For detailed info see
also

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-definitive-guide-on-win32-to-nt.html



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that
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Re: Fail to clone iptables,ipset,nftables

[Sunny73Cr]

> I removed the file, can you try to pull again?

Working fine, since deletion of the file; thank you!

sunny