"Persisting credentials for submodules" step failed with "Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory" when the submodule name contains non-ASCII characters

[brlin-tw]

The checkout operation failed during the "Persisting credentials for submodules" step when I specified the submodules input parameter to true:

Fetching submodules
  /usr/bin/git submodule sync
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 submodule update --init --force --depth=100
  Submodule '軟體包管理器 Package managers' (https://gitlab.com/libre-knowledge/package-managers.git) registered for path '軟體包管理器 Package managers'
  Cloning into '/home/runner/work/software-distribution/software-distribution/軟體包管理器 Package managers'...
  Submodule path '軟體包管理器 Package managers': checked out '1e47d1a22d8ebaf51d97854ff7c11d7e357392da'
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach git config --local gc.auto 0
  Entering '軟體包管理器 Package managers'
Persisting credentials for submodules
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach --recursive sh -c "git config --local --name-only --get-regexp 'url\.https\:\/\/github\.com\/\.insteadOf' && git config --local --unset-all 'url.https://github.com/.insteadOf' || :"
  Entering '軟體包管理器 Package managers'
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach sh -c "git config --local 'http.https://github.com/.extraheader' 'AUTHORIZATION: basic ***' && git config --local --show-origin --name-only --get-regexp remote.origin.url"
  Entering '軟體包管理器 Package managers'
  file:"/home/runner/work/software-distribution/software-distribution/.git/modules/\350\273\237\351\253\224\345\214\205\347\256\241\347\220\206\345\231\250 Package managers/config"	remote.origin.url
  Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '"/home/runner/work/software-distribution/software-distribution/.git/modules/\350\273\237\351\253\224\345\214\205\347\256\241\347\220\206\345\231\250 Package managers/config"'

The .gitmodules file in my Git repository:

[submodule "軟體包管理器 Package managers"]
	path = 軟體包管理器 Package managers
	url = https://gitlab.com/libre-knowledge/package-managers.git
	ignore = dirty

I suspect that the bug is triggered by the non-ASCII, space-including submodule name "軟體包管理器 Package managers", but I'm not exactly sure.

[brlin-tw]

I can verify that renaming the submodule name to exclude all non-ASCII characters(libre-knowledge/software-distribution@2761e0b8) workarounds this problem.

Workflow step output:

Fetching submodules
  /usr/bin/git submodule sync
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 submodule update --init --force --depth=100
  Submodule 'Package managers' (https://gitlab.com/libre-knowledge/package-managers.git) registered for path '軟體包管理器 Package managers'
  Cloning into '/home/runner/work/software-distribution/software-distribution/軟體包管理器 Package managers'...
  Submodule path '軟體包管理器 Package managers': checked out '1e47d1a22d8ebaf51d97854ff7c11d7e357392da'
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach git config --local gc.auto 0
  Entering '軟體包管理器 Package managers'
Persisting credentials for submodules
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach --recursive sh -c "git config --local --name-only --get-regexp 'url\.https\:\/\/github\.com\/\.insteadOf' && git config --local --unset-all 'url.https://github.com/.insteadOf' || :"
  Entering '軟體包管理器 Package managers'
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach sh -c "git config --local 'http.https://github.com/.extraheader' 'AUTHORIZATION: basic ***' && git config --local --show-origin --name-only --get-regexp remote.origin.url"
  Entering '軟體包管理器 Package managers'
  file:/home/runner/work/software-distribution/software-distribution/.git/modules/Package managers/config	remote.origin.url
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach git config --local --add 'url.https://github.com/.insteadOf' '[email protected]:'
  Entering '軟體包管理器 Package managers'
  /usr/bin/git submodule foreach git config --local --add 'url.https://github.com/.insteadOf' '[email protected]:'
  Entering '軟體包管理器 Package managers'

[brlin-tw]

Another workaround is to implement the submodule checkout manually:

libre-knowledge/software-distribution@91802d1...main