Invalid path error while cloning or pulling a branch into PhpStorm

Question

Using PhpStorm on a Windows machine and trying to do git pull or git clone from a remote repo and it returns the following:

error: invalid path 'Docs/AdminHelp/en/Inventory/Contract financials | Financial fields calculation (recalculate_fields).md'
fatal: unable to checkout working tree

Other team members are working with the same repo, but on my end I keep getting this error. Is there a way to fix this?

Answer 1

Docs/AdminHelp/en/Inventory/Contract financials | Financial fields calculation (recalculate_fields).md
                                               ^^^

A pipe is not allowed in Windows file paths, so you would need to:

• double-check your colleagues are using the repository on Linux/Mac
• use a Linux-based VM (or WSL2 if your Windows is a Windows 10 recent enough)

In that Linux-based environment, you would be able to checkout the repository.

Or, you would request from your colleagues to git mv/rename that file with a more sensible name.