error: invalid path 'images/*css' | fatal: unable to checkout working tree

[chrisemezue]

Issue

There is an issue when I try to git clone this git repo. The issue is connected with this file, due to this error error: invalid path 'images/*css'. See traceback below.

$ git clone https://github.com/sigtyp/sigtyp.github.io.git
Cloning into 'sigtyp.github.io'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 3021, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (640/640), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (288/288), done.
remote: Total 3021 (delta 360), reused 599 (delta 330), pack-reused 2381
Receiving objects: 100% (3021/3021), 316.16 MiB | 6.55 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1781/1781), done.
error: invalid path 'images/*css'
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 :/'

I did some research and found this suggesting that the issue might be related to path naming issues in the github repo.

Proposed solution:

• I do not understand the function of the file images/*css. If it does not have a function, please can it be deleted?
• If it can not be deleted, I could find a workaround, but I am concerned about other Windows users who might encounter this problem.

System details:

• I am using a Windows 11 PC.

[chrisemezue]

Update:

• I git cloned using my virtual Linux setup (through WSL) and I did not face this issue. So this is potentially an issue in Windows, as they pointed out.

[ivri]

Great to hear it got resolved! I guess we never tried it on Windows (I only used Ubuntu), it's good to be aware of potential issues there.