Fatal: Unable to checkout working tree

Question

I am cloning the master branch from a GitHub repo onto my system. It throws this error:

Checking connectivity ...done eate file Icon fatal: unable to checkout working tree warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.

I've tried to include the suggestions for line ending problems in Windows as the help doc suggests but still I am facing the same issue.

How can this be solved?

• Windows 7

Answer 1

As I know of, you will want to modify any file names containing: \, /, :, *, ?, ", <, >, or |, as Windows does not comply with those symbols for file naming purposes.

A nice and simple "fix" would be to download the files as a zip archive (which is supported by github), then modify the troublesome file names in File Explorer and then, finally, extract the zip archive in your desired directory.

Answer 2

Some documents in the file name under Windows is illegal. Delete these files to, or use OS X to modify the file name and then clone under Windows.

Git can't checkout a repo from github