Cannot clone repo on Windows about rosettacodedata HOT 6 OPEN

Hi Ingy, (@ingydotnet),

This evening I retried the "git clone" command as noted above:

git clone https://github.com/acmeism/RosettaCodeData --single-branch --depth=1

The same error occurred, as in the previous attempt:

invalid path 'Lang/11l/Sequence:-smallest-number-greater-than-previous-term-with-exactly-n-divisors'

It is quite possible that there are many more "invalid path" errors due to the "colon" character in the pathname. So, it may take some work to resolve this issue.

Thanks for saying that you will take some time to look into this issue.

Kind Regards,
Liam

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Hi Ingy, (@ingydotnet),

Thanks for making these changes! It will be a few days before I can get around to testing this.

When I have the opportunity, I will get back to you on this.

Kind regards,
Liam

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I too am running into this issue. Is anyone still working on this project? I noticed in the RosettaCode-pm project that provides services for this there was an update 10 months ago for 2023 but it looks like nothing in this repo has been updated in years and years.

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https://github.com/acmeism/RosettaCodeData/commits/main/

The repo has been updated many times in the last year.
Last update was 5 days ago.

I recently got a Windows machine. I can look into this sometime soon.

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https://gist.github.com/ingydotnet/b4a1d20dc95490fa1d3c2a59b6758565

417 bad paths.

Should be pretty easy to not use :.

Can try to address manually.

$ find . -type d | grep : | while read -r p; do echo "$(dirname "$p")"; done | grep : | sort | uniq
./Task/Sequence:-nth-number-with-exactly-n-divisors
./Task/Sequence:-smallest-number-greater-than-previous-term-with-exactly-n-divisors
./Task/Sequence:-smallest-number-with-exactly-n-divisors

Only 3 dirs...

OK I ran

$ find . -type d | grep : | while read -r p; do echo "$(dirname "$p")"; done | grep : | sort | uniq | while read -r p; do git mv "$p" "${p//:/}"; done
$ find . -type f | grep : | while read -r p; do git mv "$p" "${p//:/}"; done
$ find . -type l | grep : | while read -r p; do git mv "$p" "${p//:/}"; done

possibly cleaner way but this is just a test.

No more paths with : although there are some broken symlinks.

I pushed to branch https://github.com/acmeism/RosettaCodeData/tree/remove-colons

@celtic-coder can you git clone --branch=remove-colons ... and report back if at least the clone works on windows.

If so I'll fix up the build tool properly.

Thanks for your patience :)

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Hi Ingy, (@ingydotnet),

I ran the following command:

git clone --single-branch --depth=1 --branch=remove-colons https://github.com/acmeism/RosettaCodeData

We now have a further example of an "invalid path" error:

error: invalid path 'Lang/Burlesque/Eulers-constant-0.5772...'
fatal: unable to checkout working tree
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.

The two culprits with "multiple dots" in the filename appear to be:

Eulers-constant-0.5772...
Four-is-the-number-of-letters-in-the-...

These appear in both the "Lang" and "Task" sections.

Kind Regards,
Liam

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