unknown response from git cat-file

Hi,

when running git annex add in my direct mode repository, since a few days ago I only get:

$ git annex add git-annex: unknown response from git cat-file (":./Archiv/Someone missing",:./Archiv/Someone Like You Cover-fCvjvEGkTu4.flv)

The :./Archiv/Someone missing part strikes me odd because it so much looks like broken shell meta-character escaping in git-annex, but I doubt that because it stopped working just suddenly.

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comment 1

This is a bug in the 1.8.4 pre-release version of git. It will be fixed in the 1.8.4 release or another pre-release. git-annex version 4.20130802 has a workaround for this problem.

Comment by joeyh.name — Wed Aug 7 16:34:18 2013

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comment 2

I'm getting a similar error on git-annex version: 5.20141203, but I'm not in direct mode. It happens when I call 'git annex unused'.

Comment by Jeff — Wed Apr 1 01:08:53 2015

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Recurring?

Still getting this myself. First I've ran into it (a few weeks ago, but I hadn't used these repos recently).

greg@x230 (git)-[master] ~/Photos % git-annex add .               
add 2016/10/16/2016-10-16 07.47.52.jpg git-annex: unknown response from git cat-file ("HEAD:./2016/10/16/2016-10-16 07.47.52.jpg missing",Ref "HEAD:./2016/10/16/2016-10-16 07.47.52.jpg")
greg@x230 (git)-[master] ~/Photos % apt-cache policy git-annex git
zsh: correct 'git' to '.git'? [N/y/a/e] n
git-annex:
  Installed: 6.20161012-1
  Candidate: 6.20161012-1
  Version table:
 *** 6.20161012-1 500
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.20141125 500
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
git:
  Installed: 1:2.11.0-1
  Candidate: 1:2.11.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.11.0-1 500
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2 500
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages

Comment by GregGrossmeier — Mon Jan 2 21:13:47 2017

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comment 4

This is a bug, introduced in commit 34530e59 (release 6.20161012) and fixed in commit b530e432 (release 6.20161031).

It happens only when the filename contains a single space, so a workaround is to first add a filename without any spaces, and then rename it:

fn="foo bar.txt"; cp "$fn" tmp && git annex add tmp && git mv -f tmp "$fn"

Comment by fossil — Sun Jan 8 15:57:42 2017

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