Error when git clone on Windows 10 and some files are not reflected

[crfoxeam]

Bug report

Describe your environment

• OS name and version: Windows 10 Home
• Git version: 2.35.2

Describe the problem

When I do a git clone on this repository with Git for Windows, I get the following errors

error: invalid path 'src/content/pages/knowledgebase/android/what permissions does your app require and why?.md'
fatal: unable to checkout working tree

or

error: unable to create file src/content/pages/knowledgebase/android/what permissions does your app require and why?.md: Invalid argument

Steps to reproduce:

1. git clone https://github.com/ivpn/ivpn.net.git

or

1. git init
2. git remote add origin https://github.com/ivpn/ivpn.net.git
3. git config core.protectNTFS false
4. git pull origin main

Observed Results:

Simply running git clone will result in an "invalid path" error.

git clone  https://github.com/ivpn/ivpn.net.git
Cloning into 'ivpn.net'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 12555, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4952/4952), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1178/1178), done.
remote: Total 12555 (delta 3662), reused 4664 (delta 3472), pack-reused 7603
Receiving objects: 100% (12555/12555), 254.23 MiB | 9.20 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (6984/6984), done.
error: invalid path 'src/content/pages/knowledgebase/android/what permissions does your app require and why?.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 :/'

And if you do it the way I wrote above, starting with git init, I get an "unable to create file" error.

git pull origin main
remote: Enumerating objects: 10789, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4220/4220), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1061/1061), done.
remote: Total 10789 (delta 3230), reused 3827 (delta 2954), pack-reused 6569
Receiving objects: 100% (10789/10789), 253.78 MiB | 7.60 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (5809/5809), done.
From https://github.com/ivpn/ivpn.net
 * branch            main       -> FETCH_HEAD
 * [new branch]      main       -> origin/main
error: unable to create file src/content/pages/knowledgebase/android/what permissions does your app require and why?.md: Invalid argument
Updating files: 100% (1969/1969), done.

Expected Results:

It is expected that no errors will occur and that all files will be retrieved from the repository and reflected in the local repository.

Thank you.

[jurajhilje]

The ? (question mark) is forbidden in file names on Windows.
This is now resolved in #715