Error when installing using pip on Windows

[dimwas]

Hi,

I have encountered the following problem when trying to install MACAW as suggested in README (I use Windows 11 and Python 3.12):

$ pip install git+https://github.com/Devlin-Moyer/macaw.git@main
Collecting git+https://github.com/Devlin-Moyer/macaw.git@main
  Cloning https://github.com/Devlin-Moyer/macaw.git (to revision main) to c:\users\wassi\appdata\local\temp\pip-req-build-4o1jbxbx
  Running command git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/Devlin-Moyer/macaw.git 'C:\Users\wassi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-req-build-4o1jbxbx'
  error: invalid path 'data/Additional File 2: Table S1.csv'
  fatal: unable to checkout working tree
  warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
  You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
  and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'

  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/Devlin-Moyer/macaw.git 'C:\Users\wassi\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-req-build-4o1jbxbx' did not run successfully.
  exit code: 128

  See above for output.

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

Trying to git clone the repository results in the same error. I am currently figuring out whether I can just download ZIP archive and run scripts manually.

Best,
Wassili

[dimwas]

UPD: On Ubuntu, installation went on without any issues.

[Devlin-Moyer]

hm that is bizarre; I suspect that Windows doesn't like the spaces in the file name or wants them to be escaped differently or something. I will see if renaming that file fixes this

[Devlin-Moyer]

I have renamed all files that had spaces in their names so that they no longer have spaces and can now clone the repository on Windows 11 without encountering this error.