Cannot clone repo on Windows

[lorengordon]

I was attempting to work with this cookiecutter on a Windows machine, but cloning the repo fails because of the templated directories and filenames containing the | character. That is an invalid character for directories and filenames on Windows.

I checked the commit history to try to figure out why those are being templated, but it wasn't really clear to me. Is there perhaps an alternate way to fix whatever the problem was?

C:\Users\Loren\.cookiecutters> git clone https://github.com/robinandeer/cookiecutter-pyvanguard.git
Cloning into 'cookiecutter-pyvanguard'...
remote: Counting objects: 648, done.
remote: Total 648 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 648
Receiving objects: 100% (648/648), 193.15 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (339/339), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
error: unable to create file {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/tests/test_{{ cookiecutter.repo_name|replace("-", "_") }}.py (Invalid argument)
fatal: cannot create directory at '{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/{{cookiecutter.repo_name|replace("-", "_")}}': 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'

[lorengordon]

Ahh, perhaps just tell the user that - is an invalid character and exit, the way cookiecutter-pypackage does?

https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage/blob/master/hooks/pre_gen_project.py

[lorengordon]

Another option that looks to be working is to use the .replace() notation rather than | replace. Noticed this in the cookiecutter-pylibrary project...

[robinandeer]

okey interesting - didn't know about the hooks! I can look into that :)

If you want to submit a PR I will happily look it over! Otherwise when I have time ;)