From: Hugo Mildenberger <Hugo.Mildenberger@namir.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git fails with control characters in trunk directory name
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:02:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905121103.00432.Hugo.Mildenberger@namir.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0905112351l126a7c5bh902a7c7748d9a77a@mail.gmail.com>
Hello Alex,
> 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").
I said it actually did not work well, independent from how anyone prefers to
classify characters. My platform is Gentoo-hardened with unicode support and
an ext3 disk format . With "trunk directory" I meant the top level
directory which is created when you run git clone on a remote url -- sorry
for still not being a native git speaker. I don't have the original setup
anymore. My _working_ ".git/config" is now:
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
url =
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-testing.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
The remote url did contain something like "^J\n" at the end, as did the top
level (the much derided "trunk") directory name on disk. I probably got there
by puting the copied url within quotes on the command line, but today I'm
unsure exactly how I arrived there. However, old fashioned as I am, I still
consider e.g. a linefeed to be a "control character", and inspite of your
flashing git punditry I still consider this to be an issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-12 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-11 20:08 git fails with control characters in trunk directory name Hugo Mildenberger
2009-05-12 6:51 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-12 9:02 ` Hugo Mildenberger [this message]
2009-05-12 10:54 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-12 13:57 ` Hugo Mildenberger
2009-05-12 14:59 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-12 16:59 ` Hugo Mildenberger
2009-05-12 17:18 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-12 17:24 ` [PATCH] Quote LF in urls git fetch saves in FETCH_HEAD Alex Riesen
2009-05-12 23:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-13 6:06 ` Alex Riesen
[not found] ` <200905131340.31509.Hugo.Mildenberger@namir.de>
2009-05-13 12:10 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-13 14:49 ` Hugo Mildenberger
2009-05-13 12:39 ` Hugo Mildenberger
2009-05-13 15:18 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-05-13 16:09 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-13 17:07 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-13 17:12 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-05-13 18:11 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-13 18:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-13 18:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Alex Riesen
2009-05-13 20:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] Improve the naming of guessed target repository for git clone Alex Riesen
2009-05-14 0:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-14 5:54 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-14 6:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-14 8:45 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-14 12:50 ` Hugo Mildenberger
2009-05-14 8:33 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-16 17:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-12 17:41 ` git fails with control characters in trunk directory name Alex Riesen
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