Local clone causes error with Ansible backup files

[leok610]

I cloned the repository twice with GitHub CLI, once using the path CiscoDevNet/data-center-development and once with xanderstevenson/data-center-development. Both failed with the error invalid path 'nx-os/ansible_nx-os/backup/192.168.254.101_2024-07-04_15:19:55.cfg'.

The result was an empty repository with all of the files staged for deletion. I restored the files and got all of them except the problematic nx-os/ansible_nx-os/backup directory. It will probably clone fine if you exclude the backup directory.

Xander Stevenson Clone

PS C:\Git-Repositories\Cisco> gh repo clone xanderstevenson/data-center-development
Cloning into 'data-center-development'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 2949, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (380/380), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (215/215), done.
remote: Total 2949 (delta 186), reused 317 (delta 155), pack-reused 2569 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (2949/2949), 1.55 MiB | 10.94 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1256/1256), done.
error: invalid path 'nx-os/ansible_nx-os/backup/192.168.254.101_2024-07-04_15:19:55.cfg'
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 :/'

failed to run git: exit status 128

CiscoDevNet Clone

PS C:\Git-Repositories\Cisco> gh repo clone ciscodevnet/data-center-development
Cloning into 'data-center-development'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 3822, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (667/667), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (459/459), done.
remote: Total 3822 (delta 204), reused 547 (delta 140), pack-reused 3155 (from 2)
Receiving objects: 100% (3822/3822), 2.20 MiB | 12.65 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1559/1559), done.
error: invalid path 'nx-os/ansible_nx-os/backup/192.168.254.101_2024-07-04_15:19:55.cfg'
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 :/'

failed to run git: exit status 128