Git clone on Windows fails with error: unable to create file ?: Invalid argument

[freddiehaddad]

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• [X] I am using the latest rustaceanvim release.
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• [X] I can reproduce the issue with stable Neovim (not a distribution or nightly) and the minimal config.
• [X] This is an issue about rustaceanvim, not rust-analyzer or Neovim.
• [X] This is not an issue with autocompletion.

Neovim version (nvim -v)

NA

Operating system/version

Windows 24H2 (OS Build 26100.2033)

Output of :checkhealth rustaceanvim

NA

How to reproduce the issue

Clone the repository on Windows:

git clone https://github.com/mrcjkb/rustaceanvim.git

Expected behaviour

clone successful

I did try git config --global core.longpaths true and cloning again with no luck.

Actual behaviour

Cloning into 'rustaceanvim'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 5553, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1673/1673), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (575/575), done.
remote: Total 5553 (delta 1248), reused 1206 (delta 1056), pack-reused 3880 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (5553/5553), 1.16 MiB | 3.90 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3375/3375), done.
error: unable to create file ?: Invalid argument
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 :/'

This line from above is suspicious error: unable to create file ?: Invalid argument

Output from:

$ git restore --source=HEAD :/
error: unable to create file ?: Invalid argument

Output from git status

On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

Changes to be committed:
  (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
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  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
        .busted
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        .stylua.toml
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        flake.nix
        ftplugin/
        lua/
        nix/
        result
        rust-tools.nvim-LICENSE
        rustaceanvim-scm-1.rockspec
        rustaceanvim.svg
        spec/
        troubleshooting/

The minimal config used to reproduce this issue.

NA

[freddiehaddad]

Couple thoughts:

1. From the error, there appears to be a file with a ? in the name which Windows does not allow.
2. https://github.com/mrcjkb/rustaceanvim/commit/d1f56672638508a7bc971cde31a29df4018579a9 introduced the Result file, I wonder if that's the cause?

[mrcjkb]

https://github.com/mrcjkb/rustaceanvim/commit/ccff14065096c8978c431944f0f0db16db952c7b