Please describe the problem.

git annex add fails if it encounters a file whose name ends with a carriage return.

This can happen with any directory that has a custom icon in MacOS - the directory includes an empty file named Icon\r.

First git-annex shows a fatal error, "No such file or directory". Then for any subsequent files being added, it fails with "git-annex: fd:18: hFlush: resource vanished (Broken pipe)".

The problem only occurs if config.largefiles is set.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

# Step 1.
# Create a directory with an empty icon file.
# To type the carriage return (^M), press Ctrl-V and then Return.
mkdir example/
touch example/Icon^M

# Step 2.
# Create some test files in the directory.
# This should be a mixture of small files and large files.
echo hello > example/test1
head -c5000 < /dev/urandom > example/test2

# Step 3.
# Set `annex.largefiles` to anything less than the size of the large file above.
git annex config --set annex.largefiles largerthan=4kb

# Step 4.
# Add the directory to the git annex.
git annex add example/

What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?

• git-annex version 10.20241031
• git version 2.47.1
• bash version 5.2.37
• MacOS version 15.1.1 (Sequoia)

Please provide any additional information below.

This happens when I run git annex add example/:

add "example/Icon\r" (non-large file; adding content to git repository) fatal: could not open '/path/to/repo/example/Icon' for reading: No such file or directory
fatal: could not open '/path/to/repo/example/Icon' for reading: No such file or directory
fatal: could not open '/path/to/repo/example/Icon' for reading: No such file or directory
fatal: could not open '/path/to/repo/example/Icon' for reading: No such file or directory
fatal: could not open '/path/to/repo/example/Icon' for reading: No such file or directory
fatal: could not open '/path/to/repo/example/Icon' for reading: No such file or directory
fatal: could not open '/path/to/repo/example/Icon' for reading: No such file or directory
fatal: could not open '/path/to/repo/example/Icon' for reading: No such file or directory
fatal: could not open '/path/to/repo/example/Icon' for reading: No such file or directory
fatal: could not open '/path/to/repo/example/Icon' for reading: No such file or directory
fatal: could not open '/path/to/repo/example/Icon' for reading: No such file or directory

git-annex: fd:19: Data.ByteString.hGetLine: end of file
failed
add example/test1 (non-large file; adding content to git repository)
git-annex: fd:18: hFlush: resource vanished (Broken pipe)
failed
add example/test2

git-annex: fd:18: hFlush: resource vanished (Broken pipe)
failed
git-annex: fd:18: hClose: resource vanished (Broken pipe)

It succeeds at moving the large test2 file into .git/annex/objects and symlinking it, but git status doesn't show any changes.

Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)

Yes! It's helped me manage an unruly mess of files, backups, and backups of backups.

fixed --Joey