Illegal character in path with Git Submodules
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
After making changes to the .gitmodules file, the following appears in the atlassian-bitbucket.log:
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2014-09-03 10:49:12,833 ERROR [http-bio-7990-exec-45624] tiecimov @SCSPXTx649x2753980x1 1dxhfwc 10.4.148.55,10.100.5.155 "GET /projects/MCU32_REPOS/repos/p015_platform_alta/browse/mod HTTP/1.1" c.a.s.i.w.HandlerExceptionResolverImpl An error occurred while executing an external process: Illegal character in path at index 33: ../../folder/file.git
track = master
com.atlassian.bitbucket.exception.ServerException: An error occurred while executing an external process: Illegal character in path at index 33: ../../folder/file.git
track = master
at com.atlassian.bitbucket.scm.git.common.command.GitCommandExitHandler.evaluateThrowable(GitCommandExitHandler.java:104) ~[na:na]Cause
This is caused by the line endings of the .gitmodules file not being in the correct format and is likely because Windows style line endings were committed to the repository.
Resolution
Use
dos2unixto convert the line endings to the correct format:1dos2unix .gitmodulesCommit the file and push it back to the Bitbucket Server instance.
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