'Fatal: Unable to checkout working tree

I am cloning the master branch from a GitHub repo onto my system. It throws this error:

Checking connectivity ...done eate file Icon fatal: unable to checkout working tree warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.

I've tried to include the suggestions for line ending problems in Windows as the help doc suggests but still I am facing the same issue.

How can this be solved?

  • Windows 7


Solution 1:[1]

As I know of, you will want to modify any file names containing: \, /, :, *, ?, ", <, >, or |, as Windows does not comply with those symbols for file naming purposes.

A nice and simple "fix" would be to download the files as a zip archive (which is supported by github), then modify the troublesome file names in File Explorer and then, finally, extract the zip archive in your desired directory.

Solution 2:[2]

Some documents in the file name under Windows is illegal. Delete these files to, or use OS X to modify the file name and then clone under Windows.

Git can't checkout a repo from github

Solution 3:[3]

Check the error messages carefully. Some file names might be long or some other issues will be there concerning a file. Or maybe there is not enough space. But do git clone on command prompt and go through the last couple of error messages

Solution 4:[4]

I got this error trying to download some repos with blacklisted windows filenames:

error: invalid path 'drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/aux.c' notice the file is called aux.c which is a banned word in windows because AUX is a namespace for auxiliary port connections. Backwards compatibility to the stone ages basically.

More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file?redirectedfrom=MSDN#win32-device-namespaces

For a full list of reserved keywords see second-last dotpoint: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file?redirectedfrom=MSDN#naming-conventions

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