Cannot clone repository

[Kevin Ng]

The following is what I got when try to clone this repository

\$ git clone https://[e-mail]/john_maloney/smallvm.git
Cloning into 'smallvm'...
remote: Counting objects: 12386, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5209/5209), done.
remote: Total 12386 (delta 8745), reused 10302 (delta 7078)
Receiving objects: 100% (12386/12386), 54.61 MiB | 1.04 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (8745/8745), done.
fatal: cannot create directory at 'gp/Examples/ by board/micro:bit and Calliope': Invalid argument
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'

and folders such as /vm is missing. May I ask why ?

[Bernat Romagosa]

I have no idea, but the exact same command did work for me:

% git clone https://[e-mail]/john_maloney/smallvm.git
S'està clonant a «smallvm»...
remote: Counting objects: 12445, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5268/5268), done.
remote: Total 12445 (delta 8787), reused 10301 (delta 7078)
S'estan rebent objectes: 100% (12445/12445), 54.62 MiB | 1.73 MiB/s, fet.
S'estan resolent les diferències: 100% (8787/8787), fet.

It’s (mostly) not in English, but you can see it fetched the repo correctly, and the contents are all there:

% ls smallvm
boards     chromeApp            esp32   ide       linux+pi      misc                                        platformio.ini   README.md      vm
build.sh   entitlements.plist   gp      LICENSE   Locales.txt  'Mozilla Public License, version 2.0.html'   precompiled      translations

Sounds like something specific to your system. Does it happen with other Git repos?

[Bernat Romagosa]

Haven't heard back from you, and I've just tried to clone the repo from another computer without any issues, so I suppose this was a one-time error in your particular setup.