Git checkout fails on Windows

[keeganwitt]

Cloning (or pulling) the repository now fails.

$ git clone https://github.com/docker-library/official-images.git
Cloning into 'official-images'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 93744, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (228/228), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (128/128), done.
remote: Total 93744 (delta 132), reused 183 (delta 100), pack-reused 93516
Receiving objects: 100% (93744/93744), 21.82 MiB | 15.65 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (64747/64747), done.
error: invalid path '.external-pins/mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:1809'
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 :/'

The Windows file naming convention states that the following are reserved characters

• < (less than)
• > (greater than)
• : (colon)
• " (double quote)
• / (forward slash)
• \ (backslash)
• | (vertical bar or pipe)
• ? (question mark)
• * (asterisk)

So in this case, the issue is with the colon character. Is it possible to rename those files (nanoserver:1809, nanoserver:ltsc2022, servercore:1809, servercore:ltsc2022)?

[tianon]

Doh, yep -- as noted in #13567 (comment), I tested this, but only with MSYS touch that comes with Git for Windows, so I (wrongly) assumed Git would make the same intelligent conversions automatically that MSYS does.