error: git checkout-index: unable to create file

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Senthil A Kumar picture Senthil A Kumar · Sep 11, 2010 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

What I am trying to do is a git clone on windows, but the parent repository exists in a unix machine.

Am cloning using ssh to get a clone from UNIX to windows, and I get this weird error.

error: git checkout-index: unable to create file <filename>

This happens during the checkout step of a git clone.

Can anyone help me?

Answer

Dexuan picture Dexuan · Dec 3, 2012

The answer should be:we can't create a file named aux.c in windows!

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Do not use the following reserved device names for the name of a file: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9. Also avoid these names followed immediately by an extension; for example, NUL.txt is not recommended. For more information, see Namespaces.

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