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Tim
Tim

Reputation: 1471

git pull in windows doesn't work when the branch name had double quotes

I am trying to find a workaround, in private gitlab, i noticed some user accidently typed " : branch is named something like story/UI_login_feature".

This seems to work fine in Linux box, when i issue git pull.

Windows is not able to pull, since i get below message whatever i do. i used, git bash to create the file manually still it is not working

error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/story/UI_login_feature"':
Unable to create 'C:/Users/tim/git/webapp/.git/refs/remotes/origin/story/UI_login_feature".lock':
Invalid argument

Deleting the branch is not an option for me now since it has some other user changes.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 927

Answers (1)

Opri
Opri

Reputation: 651

In Windows you cannot use certain chars in a file or folder name; a double quote is one of those.

Basically the error says that you can't create UI_login_feature" file.

You can create at the begging a new branch from the double quoted one:

>git checkout -b my_new_branch story/UI_login_feature\"

and you can continue from here in windows.

Upvotes: 1

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