Git Windows: Cannot clone/checkout repository paths with spaces

Question

I am trying to checkout a repository with paths that have spaces. git clone/checkout failed. The following error is returned

fatal: cannot create directory at 'main-path/some-folder-with-space /another-folder': No such file or directory

Resolved by:

Project is now successfully cloned to my windows machine. I can checkout the remote branches without any errors.

checkout [this] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19180612/fatal-cannot-create-directory-at-root-wp-content-cache-page-enhanced-no-s) may help you — ntshetty, Mar 13 '17 at 07:57
It seems Windows and NTFS doesn't handle spaces at the start or the end of a file or folder name rather well so I would try to avoid this. My attempts to reproduce a problem seems to indicate that Windows itself will silently strip away these spaces when creating the folder, and will silently ignore the spaces when attempting to access the folder **from .NET**, but not from other tools not based on .NET. — Lasse V. Karlsen, Mar 13 '17 at 09:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 04 '18 at 19:01

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Put the address in quotes

git clone "some/folder/with spaces/here.git"

answered Jan 04 '18 at 19:01

DeaMon1

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 13 '17 at 07:09

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Assuming you're on the command line, you can just escape spaces with \.

I tried with git clone ../some\ folder\ with\ spaces/.

EDIT: The target folder also contains spaces. No Problem. Can you elaborate on how you tried to clone? Are you using command line or some gui?

answered Mar 13 '17 at 07:09

kowsky

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I am simply cloning a whole project but it is failing because some of the folders inside contain spaces git@github.com:comp/project.git – ariabele Mar 13 '17 at 07:32
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It doesn't look like it **contains** spaces, it looks like it **ends with** a space. – Lasse V. Karlsen Mar 13 '17 at 09:20

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 29 '17 at 01:32

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This was resolved by using a lower version of Git Bash (1.9.5) I was using version 2.5.1 when I encountered this issue.

edited Jun 29 '17 at 01:32

Rob

answered Jun 29 '17 at 01:04

ariabele

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