git status: bad filename results in "protocol error"

Question

I have a local copy of a remote git repository. Every time I execute "git status", I get this error:

git status
public/app.chart/license/Creative Commons�� Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International�� CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.pdf: Protocol error
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

Said file doesn't exist in the repository. When I switch branches, I get this message:

git checkout test_branch 
D   "public/app.chart/license/Creative Commons\200\224 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International\200\224 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.pdf"
Switched to branch 'test_branch'

Is there any way to solve this problem?

It's clear from both `git status` and `git checkout` that this file *does* exist in the repository. It merely does not exist in the *work tree*, presumably because the OS rejects the path name. Are you on MacOS? What version of Git do you have? — torek, Feb 10 '17 at 17:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '17 at 18:34

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Try and see if the issue persists after a:

cd /path/to/my/local/repo
git config core.quotepath false

From git config man page:

If this variable is set to false, the bytes higher than 0x80 are not quoted but output as verbatim.

answered Feb 10 '17 at 18:34

VonC

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Doesn't seem to make any difference, but thanks for helping :-) – Ledazinha Feb 10 '17 at 18:44
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@Ledazinha OK. What version of Git are you using? and on which OS? – VonC Feb 10 '17 at 18:45
Git version is 2.7.4. OS is Ubuntu 16.04 xenial; Kernel is x86_64 Linux 4.4.0-42-generic. – Ledazinha Feb 11 '17 at 17:53
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@Ledazinha Could you try an dupdate to the latest 2.11 (with ppa update as described in http://stackoverflow.com/a/41357503/6309)? – VonC Feb 11 '17 at 20:15
unfortunately it doesn't seem to work... I guess I'll just create a fresh repo. Again, thanks for helping ;-) – Ledazinha Feb 15 '17 at 00:47

git status: bad filename results in "protocol error"

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