failed to repo sync aosp source code

[tthsn]

• A brief description
  failed to repo sync aosp source code

• Actual results (with terminal output if applicable)

...
Fetching project platform/external/jemalloc
Fetching projects: 100% (545/545), done.
error: unable to create file frontend/client/src/autotest/public/Open+Sans:300.woff (Invalid argument)
error: unable to create file frontend/client/src/autotest/public/Roboto+Bold:700.woff (Invalid argument)
error: unable to create file frontend/client/src/autotest/public/Roboto+Light:300.woff (Invalid argument)
error: unable to create file frontend/client/src/autotest/public/Roboto+Medium:500.woff (Invalid argument)
error: unable to create file frontend/client/src/autotest/public/Roboto+Regular:400.woff (Invalid argument)
error: unable to create file server/site_tests/display_EdidStress/test_data/edids/weekly/SCT_272_STEELCASE_m:s_HDMI.txt (Invalid argument)
Checking out files: 100% (9442/9442), done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/mnt/d/aosp/.repo/repo/main.py", line 531, in <module>
    _Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/mnt/d/aosp/.repo/repo/main.py", line 507, in _Main
    result = repo._Run(argv) or 0
  File "/mnt/d/aosp/.repo/repo/main.py", line 180, in _Run
    result = cmd.Execute(copts, cargs)
  File "/mnt/d/aosp/.repo/repo/subcmds/sync.py", line 769, in Execute
    project.Sync_LocalHalf(syncbuf, force_sync=opt.force_sync)
  File "/mnt/d/aosp/.repo/repo/project.py", line 1247, in Sync_LocalHalf
    self._InitWorkTree(force_sync=force_sync)
  File "/mnt/d/aosp/.repo/repo/project.py", line 2393, in _InitWorkTree
    raise GitError("cannot initialize work tree")
error.GitError: cannot initialize work tree

• Your Windows build number
  Windows 10 Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.969)

• Steps / All commands required to reproduce the error from a brand new installation

$ cd ~
$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > repo
$ chmod a+x ~/repo
$ ~/repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest
$ ~/repo sync -j1

• Strace of the failing command

N/A

• Required packages and commands to install

$ sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
  zip curl zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386 \
  lib32ncurses5-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32z-dev ccache \
  libgl1-mesa-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc unzip

[tthsn]

It seems caused by colon(:) in filename in NTFS file system.
Is there any workaround?

[aseering]

Unfortunately, no. See #1514.

If you're trying to work with aosp, you should also have a look at #1771 . Basically, it ain't gonna work yet :-) Feel free to follow up on either of those tickets.

[benhillis]

Closing as a duplicate of #1514.

[cydia2020]

Same situation here

[fatterx]

workaround:

modify ./repo/repo/project.py

goto line 2485

comment this two lines

# if GitCommand(self, cmd).Wait() != 0:
# raise GitError("cannot initialize work tree")

[xonq]

workaround:

modify ./repo/repo/project.py

goto line 2485

comment this two lines

# if GitCommand(self, cmd).Wait() != 0:
# raise GitError("cannot initialize work tree")

how does that fix it - it simply bypasses reporting the error?