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Add: give ‘does not exist ERROR’ if a file with a leading question mark is given

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Bug Report

Description

see Issue name.

Reproduce

I have a dvc folder data with has two files test?test.txt and ?test.txt:

.
└── data
    ├── test?test.txt
    └── ?test.txt

1 directory, 3 files

If I try to add ?test.txt I get this error:

$ dvc add data/\?test.txt
Adding...                                                                               
ERROR: output 'data?test.txt' does not exist

Apparently DVC things I want to add data?test.txt and yes this file does not exist, but this is not what I wanna add. The other file data/test?test.txt I can add without any problems. I thing there is a problem with the leading question mark. I also tested this witch a leading ‘#’, same problem.

My question is: Is this on purpose? I noticed the behavior in DVC version 2.18.1 or so. Befor I hat no problem with leading question marks.

Expected

Just add the file.

Environment information

DVC version: 2.20.0 (deb)
---------------------------------
Platform: Python 3.8.3 on Linux-5.4.0-125-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.14
Supports:
	http (aiohttp = 3.8.1, aiohttp-retry = 2.8.3),
	https (aiohttp = 3.8.1, aiohttp-retry = 2.8.3),
	ssh (sshfs = 2022.6.0)
Cache types: hardlink, symlink
Cache directory: ext4 on /dev/sda2
Caches: local
Remotes: None
Workspace directory: ext4 on /dev/sda2
Repo: dvc, git

Additional Information (if any):

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State:
Created a year ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

samuelkeescommented, Aug 29, 2022

I tested it with DVC version 2.18.0; all cool. DVC version 2.18.1 i get the same error.

$ tree
.
`-- data
    `-- ?test.txt

1 directory, 1 file

$ dvc --version
2.18.0

$ dvc add data/\?test.txt 
WARNING: 'data/?test.txt' is empty.                                                                                                               
100% Adding...|██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████|1/1 [00:00, 24.07file/s]
                                                                                                                                                  
To track the changes with git, run:

	git add data/.gitignore 'data/?test.txt.dvc'

To enable auto staging, run:

	dvc config core.autostage true

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daavoocommented, Aug 29, 2022

This was introduced in https://github.com/iterative/dvc-objects/commit/23e87bb76bca81fd88053f8fadf628d975f94a12 cc @efiop

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