On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 7:40 AM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > It looks like making the directory works fine: > > # mkdir "funny " > # ls -ld f* > drwxr-xr-x 1 runneradmin None 0 Mar 28 11:01 'funny ' > > So I suspect this isn't a bug in Git so much as we are running afoul of > OS limitations. And that is corroborated by these: > > https://superuser.com/questions/1733673/how-to-determine-if-a-file-with-a-trailing-space-exists > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48439697/trailing-whitespace-in-filename > > There's some Win32 API magic you can do by prepending "\\?\", but I > couldn't get it to do anything useful. Curiously, asking Git to > traverse itself yields another failure mode: > > # git add "funny " > error: open("funny /empty"): No such file or directory > error: unable to index file 'funny /empty' > fatal: adding files failed This reminded me very much of [1] which exhibited the same failure mode and was due to the same limitation(s) of the OS. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20211209051115.52629-3-sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
