Allow creating files/directories with space in the name using the web interface

Hello,

I'm wondering why files and directories created using the web interface can't have a space in it.

This blocked us as someone tried to create a directory without any space in its name, but there is a space in a parent directory.

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Hi, any news about this bug?

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mentioned in issue #26540 (closed)

Also stumbled across this at my organization .. even if whitespaces are bad practice for files / folders a fix would be greatly appreciated.

Tested with Gitlab CE

• GitLab 8.16.6
• GitLab Shell 4.1.1
• GitLab Workhorse v1.3.0
• GitLab API v3
• Git 2.10.2
• Ruby 2.3.3p222
• Rails 4.2.7.1
• PostgreSQL 9.2.18

hello, is this issue out of interest?

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It is not out of interest. We have same problem.

This is possible via the CLI. I guess it should be possible via the web interface too.

We have run into this issue using the HTTP API. Is this being worked on? Or is there a workaround?

This makes GitLab unusable for us right now.

No reason it can't have a space, as far as I know. I think for the Web UI it might be a simple matter of relaxing the constraint. /cc: @mydigitalself

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mentioned in issue #26187 (moved)

@DouweM is this frontend?

@mydigitalself No, the validation is in the backend.

The validation should be in Git, not the gitlab backend, which is clearly far more restrictive than git itself and is causing problems because of it. If the OS can support the character, and git itself doesn't complain, gitlab has no business suddenly imposing its own opinion.

mentioned in merge request !12608 (merged)

closed via merge request !12608 (merged)

mentioned in commit 793ce6fe

mentioned in issue #23459 (closed)

mentioned in issue #35278 (closed)