Repository with directory named with a backslash \ Impossible to access or remove directory

[bubu93200]

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Hi everyone

I have a problem with my repository on github

I have, on ma repository, a directory named "QMLexemple2\readme.md" . It's an error. iwanted to create a file readme.md in a directory QMLexemple2.

But now my repository is corrupted

In cloning my repository, I have :
Cloning into 'C:\Users\xxx\Documents\GitHub\MITmscore'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 19498, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (257/257), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (119/119), done.
remote: Total 19498 (delta 137), reused 226 (delta 125), pack-reused 19241
Receiving objects: 100% (19498/19498), 126.55 MiB | 19.59 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (8705/8705), done.
error: invalid path 'QMLexemple2\readme.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 :/'

Please, help me to solve this issue.
git restore --source=HEAD :/ explain me I have to change "\" to "/". But how to do this ?

[jge162]

Hello @bubu93200 you can do the following to correct.

• git mv QMLexemple2\readme.md QMLexemple2/readme.md
• git commit -m "Rename QMLexemple2\readme.md to QMLexemple2/readme.md"
• git push

Also after these steps, you should be able to clone your repository without any issues.

[bubu93200]

thanks a lot
But I cant access to my local git (I can't create a local repository. git clone doesn't work). Is it possible to do this on online repository ?

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