What I am trying to do is a git clone on windows, but the parent repository exists in a unix machine.
Am cloning using ssh to get a clone from UNIX to windows, and I get this weird error.
error: git checkout-index: unable to create file <filename>
This happens during the checkout step of a git clone.
Can anyone help me?
A common problem is two files whose names differ only by case — git assumes a case sensitive system. If the repository contains both FOO and foo, then attempting to create one after the other will fail.
Maybe related to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1209902/git-checkout-and-reset-on-windows-occasionally-shows-random-files-have-changed
Was your directory plus your filenames too long for Windows? I came across this problem once, and it was fixed when I tried cloning into a lower directory.