Windows: git clone fails — invalid paths with trailing space in `datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality `

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What happened

Cloning the repository on Windows fails at checkout because some files/folders contain an invalid trailing space in the path. Windows filesystems do not accept names that end with a space, so Git cannot create those paths and the checkout aborts.

Reproduction steps

1. On a Windows machine (PowerShell or Git Bash), run:

git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-dataplex.git

2. Observe clone succeeds but checkout fails with errors like:

error: invalid path 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /datascan.py'
fatal: unable to checkout working tree
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.

3. Attempting to restore/checkout shows more invalid paths:

git restore --source=HEAD :/
error: invalid path 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /datascan.py'
error: invalid path 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /lib.py'
error: invalid path 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /main.py'
error: invalid path 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /readme.md'
error: invalid path 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /sample_config.yaml'

Environment

OS: Windows 11 Pro 24H2 Build 26100.6584 (tested on PowerShell and Git Bash)
Git: 2.51.0
Repository: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-dataplex

Affected paths (examples)

datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /datascan.py
datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /lib.py
datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /main.py
datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /readme.md
datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /sample_config.yaml

Why this is a problem

Windows filesystems (NTFS/FAT) disallow filenames/folder names with trailing spaces. When Git tries to check out these paths on Windows, it fails and prevents cloning the repo correctly for Windows users.
This also affects cross-platform contributors and CI that runs on Windows

clone without checking out files

git clone --no-checkout https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-dataplex.git
Cloning into 'cloud-dataplex'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 586, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (212/212), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (126/126), done.
remote: Total 586 (delta 137), reused 86 (delta 86), pack-reused 374 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (586/586), 984.29 KiB | 4.45 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (303/303), done.

cd cloud-dataplex

attempt to remove the folder from the index (fails)

git rm -r --cached "datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality "
fatal: pathspec 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality ' did not match any files

attempting to checkout still fails because of invalid paths

git checkout
error: invalid path 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /datascan.py'
error: invalid path 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /lib.py'
error: invalid path 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /main.py'
error: invalid path 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /readme.md'
error: invalid path 'datascan/bulk-creation-scripts/dataquality /sample_config.yaml'

On a non-windows machine

git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-dataplex.git
Cloning into 'cloud-dataplex'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 586, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (212/212), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (126/126), done.
remote: Total 586 (delta 137), reused 86 (delta 86), pack-reused 374 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (586/586), 985.03 KiB | 4.21 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (302/302), done.