Re: [PATCH 0/1] quote: quote space

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 7:40 AM Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

It looks like making the directory works fine:

  # mkdir "funny "
  # ls -ld f*
  drwxr-xr-x 1 runneradmin None 0 Mar 28 11:01 'funny '

So I suspect this isn't a bug in Git so much as we are running afoul of
OS limitations. And that is corroborated by these:

  https://superuser.com/questions/1733673/how-to-determine-if-a-file-with-a-trailing-space-exists
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48439697/trailing-whitespace-in-filename

There's some Win32 API magic you can do by prepending "\\?\", but I
couldn't get it to do anything useful.  Curiously, asking Git to
traverse itself yields another failure mode:

  # git add "funny "
  error: open("funny /empty"): No such file or directory
  error: unable to index file 'funny /empty'
  fatal: adding files failed

This reminded me very much of [1] which exhibited the same failure
mode and was due to the same limitation(s) of the OS.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20211209051115.52629-3-sunshine@sunshineco.com/ (local)