Git fatal checkout on Windows #316
Description
Description
Was trying to checkout my fork for a pull request on my Windows system and got:
mkdocs-material.git
Cloning into 'mkdocs-material'...
remote: Counting objects: 8420, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 8420 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 8414
Receiving objects: 100% (8420/8420), 6.88 MiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4785/4785), done.
fatal: cannot create directory at 'tests/visual/baseline/ci/md-nav--primary/md-n
av__item--nested/md-nav__link/:focus': Invalid argument
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry the checkout with 'git checkout -f HEAD'
Windows does not allow : in folder names. So this limits contributions from people on windows. Luckily I usually work on Mac, but these folders should probably get renamed.
Expected behavior
git clone to work on Windows.
Actual behavior
Git clone fails (or better phrased, the checkout part fails) on windows due to invalid Windows folder names.
Steps to reproduce the bug
- Git clone on Windows. Checkout will fail.
Package versions
- Material: tip of master
System information
- OS: Windows, and probably only windows.