Description
On cloning this repository using the command git clone https://github.com/salesforce/WikiSQL
Git is able to download the repository but is not able to extract all the files. An error is encountered as follows:
Cloning into 'WikiSQL'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 386, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (192/192), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (38/38), done.
remote: Total 386 (delta 185), reused 154 (delta 154), pack-reused 194
Receiving objects: 100% (386/386), 50.72 MiB | 19.88 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (212/212), done.
error: unable to create file collection/paraphrase/Icon?: Invalid argument
error: unable to create file collection/paraphrase/paraphrase_files/Icon?: Invalid argument
error: unable to create file collection/verify/Icon?: Invalid argument
error: unable to create file collection/verify/verify_files/Icon?: Invalid argument
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 :/'
This is the output of running git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
Changes to be committed:
(use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
deleted: .dockerignore
deleted: .gitattributes
deleted: .gitignore
deleted: .travis.yml
deleted: CODEOWNERS
deleted: LICENSE
deleted: README.md
deleted: annotate.py
deleted: collection/README.md
deleted: "collection/paraphrase/Icon\r"
deleted: collection/paraphrase/index.html
deleted: "collection/paraphrase/paraphrase_files/Icon\r"
deleted: collection/paraphrase/paraphrase_files/bootstrap.min.css
deleted: collection/paraphrase/paraphrase_files/bootstrap.min.js
deleted: collection/paraphrase/paraphrase_files/jquery-3.2.1.min.js
deleted: collection/paraphrase/paraphrase_files/toastr.min.css
deleted: collection/paraphrase/paraphrase_files/toastr.min.js
deleted: "collection/verify/Icon\r"
deleted: collection/verify/verify.html
deleted: "collection/verify/verify_files/Icon\r"
deleted: collection/verify/verify_files/bootstrap.min.css
deleted: collection/verify/verify_files/bootstrap.min.js
deleted: collection/verify/verify_files/jquery-3.2.1.min.js
deleted: collection/verify/verify_files/toastr.min.css
deleted: collection/verify/verify_files/toastr.min.js
deleted: data.tar.bz2
deleted: evaluate.py
deleted: lib/__init__.py
deleted: lib/common.py
deleted: lib/dbengine.py
deleted: lib/query.py
deleted: lib/table.py
deleted: requirements.txt
deleted: test/Dockerfile
deleted: test/check.py
deleted: test/example.pred.dev.jsonl.bz2
deleted: version.txt
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
.dockerignore
.gitattributes
.gitignore
.travis.yml
CODEOWNERS
LICENSE
README.md
annotate.py
collection/
data.tar.bz2
evaluate.py
lib/
requirements.txt
test/
version.txt
And the output of running git restore --source=HEAD :/ as suggested:
error: unable to create file collection/paraphrase/Icon?: Invalid argument
error: unable to create file collection/paraphrase/paraphrase_files/Icon?: Invalid argument
error: unable to create file collection/verify/Icon?: Invalid argument
error: unable to create file collection/verify/verify_files/Icon?: Invalid argument
It seems like the issue is with the filename of the files which contains question marks, a character which is not allowed in file names in Linux file systems.
I attempted to see if the issue can be resolved by downloading the missing files directly from GitHub into the directory where it is supposed to be, for example this file. But it is not possible to download this file as it is and using wget fails as well.
An alternate method tried by me was to download the the Master branch code as a ZIP file and extract is using the unzip WikiSQL-master.zip command. This method works fine and in fact, even the offending files (such as collection/paraphrase/Icon) were successfully extracted with no illegal characters in their file names. It seems like this is an issue with how Git is extracting the files in this repository.