IEEE-VIT
Documentation: Error when cloning on Windows
Describe the bug When trying to clone this repo on windows, I've came across an error
error: invalid path '.github/pull_request_template.md.'
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 :/
To Reproduce
- Be on a Windows machine
- Fork the repo
- git clone %repo%
Expected behavior The repository should be cloned
Solution Obviously the issue lies on the .github/pull_request_template.md. file so if that file is removed, it should work fine. Otherwise, another possible alternative would be:
- git init ToDo-iOS && cd ToDo-iOS
- git config core.protectNTFS false
- git remote add %repository_url%
- git fetch
- git checkout origin/master
Hi @Guiguerreiro39, yes I suppose the error is due to pull_request_template.md. and deleting it shoulf fix the issues on windows. Thanks for pointing it out!
Would you like to work on this issue?
Hi @Guiguerreiro39, yes I suppose the error is due to
pull_request_template.md.and deleting it shoulf fix the issues on windows. Thanks for pointing it out! Would you like to work on this issue?
I can work on it.. is that file necessary for anything else?
yes so if you look carefully there are two files in .github directory, one is pull_request_template.md.second is PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md. You can delete the first one, the second one is being used for the template of pull requests.