Bamboo fails to checkout in a Windows environment due to colons on filenames

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Symptoms

Bamboo fails to checkout from the repository and the following appears in the atlassian-bamboo.log:

2013-08-23 15:51:24,861 ERROR [9-BAM::Agent Two::Agent:pool-22-thread-1] [TaskExecutorImpl] Error occurred while running Task 'Checkout Default Repository(1)' of type com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs:task.vcs.checkout.
java.lang.RuntimeException: com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.RepositoryException: ABCD-EFG-JOB1-2: Checkout to revision jlajlkda123jklj123bmnbjh12g12hfhgfh21f3hip12 has failed.The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.rerun(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:132)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.runTask(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:88)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.retry(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:191)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.retry(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:176)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsCheckoutTask.execute(VcsCheckoutTask.java:169)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.executeTasks(TaskExecutorImpl.java:220)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.executePreparationTasks(TaskExecutorImpl.java:73)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.build.pipeline.tasks.PrepareBuildTask.call(PrepareBuildTask.java:74)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.DefaultBuildAgent.build(DefaultBuildAgent.java:188)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.BuildAgentControllerImpl.waitAndPerformBuild(BuildAgentControllerImpl.java:102)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.DefaultBuildAgent$1.run(DefaultBuildAgent.java:107)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.build.pipeline.concurrent.NamedThreadFactory$2.run(NamedThreadFactory.java:52)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.RepositoryException: ABCD-EFG-JOB1-2: Checkout to revision jlajlkda123jklj123bmnbjh12g12hfhgfh21f3hip12 has failed.The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.JGitOperationHelper.doCheckout(JGitOperationHelper.java:182)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.JGitOperationHelper.checkout(JGitOperationHelper.java:272)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.GitRepository$3.call(GitRepository.java:342)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.GitRepository$3.call(GitRepository.java:318)
	at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.ManagedLocks$ManagedLockImpl.withLock(ManagedLocks.java:312)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.GitRepository.retrieveSourceCode(GitRepository.java:317)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.GitRepository.retrieveSourceCode(GitRepository.java:293)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsCheckoutTask.fillWorkingDirFromVcs(VcsCheckoutTask.java:246)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsCheckoutTask.access$100(VcsCheckoutTask.java:54)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsCheckoutTask$2.call(VcsCheckoutTask.java:173)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsCheckoutTask$2.call(VcsCheckoutTask.java:170)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.rerun(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:108)
	... 12 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
	at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
	at java.io.File.createTempFile(Unknown Source)
	at org.shaded.eclipse.jgit.dircache.DirCacheCheckout.checkoutEntry(DirCacheCheckout.java:933)
	at org.shaded.eclipse.jgit.dircache.DirCacheCheckout.doCheckout(DirCacheCheckout.java:447)
	at org.shaded.eclipse.jgit.dircache.DirCacheCheckout.checkout(DirCacheCheckout.java:380)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.JGitOperationHelper.doCheckout(JGitOperationHelper.java:132)
	... 23 more

Cause

Filenames cannot have colons in Windows operating systems.

Resolution

Rename the filenames so that they don't have colons and commit again.

Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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