gitFW-checkout-failed-issue-urlfolder

For the purpose of reporting issue (reported here) relating to Git For Windows relating to URL folder names.

How to reproduce

From WSL 2 Ubuntu 20.04

mkdir newrepo
cd newrepo
git init
curl https://wikipedia.com -L --create-dirs -o "https://wikipedia.com/mon.html"

From Windows PowerShell, or any other programs that uses Git for Windows (as of version 2.28.0.windows.1).

• git clone
• Checkout failed See Appendix 1 This behavior was initially discovered when I was in GitKraken and repeated the behavior on CLI git-scm

Appendix 1

git clone https://github.com/kaovilai/gitFW-checkout-failed-issue-urlfolder/ test
Cloning into 'test'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 8, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (8/8), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Total 8 (delta 1), reused 8 (delta 1), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (8/8), 19.06 KiB | 591.00 KiB/s, done.
error: invalid path 'https:/wikipedia.com/mon.html'
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 :/'

Other issues

https/wikipedia.com was commited from a Windows machine. It does not appear that git version 2.25.1 for Ubuntu is able to clone this folder as ls show it is missing. See Appendix 2

Appendix 2

WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04 not showing file commited from Windows

$ git log
commit 09997cdce1e50ddd25c454f7ec9636469ac31427 (HEAD -> main, origin/main)
Author: Tiger Kaovilai <passawit.kaovilai@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 14 21:27:59 2020 -0400

    Create README.md

commit cddc92978766f1ef8936eebe86c8b241a1d5784d
Author: Passawit Kaovilai <passawit.kaovilai@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 14 21:17:29 2020 -0400

    httpscolon test from WSL 2 Ubuntu 20.04

commit b3302f662988eff67fa0f385a7ed8b71b963d0f5
Author: Passawit Kaovilai <passawit.kaovilai@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 14 21:15:38 2020 -0400

    httpscolon test

commit d5837617e29a79a95e40443a6c5c9e94a64759a1
Author: Passawit Kaovilai <passawit.kaovilai@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 14 21:10:30 2020 -0400

    testWithoutHTTPColon
$ git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean
$ ls -a
.  ..  .git  README.md  https:  wikipedia.com
$