Unable to checkout servo code on Windows host

[leonardinius]

$ git clone https://github.com/servo/servo.git mozilla-servo
Cloning into 'mozilla-servo'...
remote: Counting objects: 64130, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (264/264), done.
remote: Total 64130 (delta 143), reused 28 (delta 11)
Receiving objects: 100% (64130/64130), 29.65 MiB | 277.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (42564/42564), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
error: unable to create file tests/ref/hello_a?foo#bar.html (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 the checkout with 'git checkout -f HEAD'

The problem appears to be with tests/ref/hello_a?foo#bar.html file

[Ms2ger]

Note that we don't support running or building on Windows at all.

[leonardinius]

English is not my mother tongue, hopefully I will be able to express my thought clear enough.

Note that we don't support running or building on Windows at all.

@Ms2ger I know ;)

• ? However I suppose you will (at some point of time)
• I suppose you might consider / consider Windows based developer contributions (e.g. documentation, whatever ..)

As per current moment - the stuff like this breaks simple attempts to contribute, read code etc ...

It's not a issue for me, since I was going to fetch the code just of sake of fetching, reading through it, etc .. Most likely I will just fork repo, remove the offending file and use my fork from that point forward.

I understand the issue like this is some kind of 'white noise' at this stage of the project.
The real reason I raised it - I just wanted to make a point there is already something in codebase which breaks simple and easy access to code from Windows and it might become even bigger problem in the future (e.g. test infra dependence on filenames like that etc ...).

Please feel free to close this issue, as it is nothing more than just 'raise an awareness flag' type of issue.

[jdm]

I guess we'll need to find some other way to test #3340 :(
http://mxr.mozilla.org/servo/source/tests/ref/basic.list#5

[adamncasey]

I think this can be closed, it clones successfully on Windows even without MSYS. The filename issues are presumably all fixed.

[jdm]

Yay!