Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):
- Use a Windows machine
- install git
- open git bash as administrator
- git clone ssh://novemlinguae@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/operations/puppet
What happens?:
- error: invalid path 'modules/mailman3/files/templates/domain:admin:notice:new-list.txt'
- errors and various problems related to some filenames containing a colon. colon is an illegal filename character in windows. as a result of the missing local copies of the files with colon in the filename, completely unable to stage or commit changes in git
What should have happened instead?:
- consider renaming these files to not include a colon, if this is easy to do
Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
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