Packer fails to install packages from Gitlab on Windows

[ashencone]

• nvim --version: NVIM v0.6.1
• git --version: git version 2.35.1.windows.2
• Operating system/version: Windows 11
• Terminal name/version: Windows Terminal

Steps to reproduce

Run :PackerUpdate from nvim.

Actual behaviour

fatal: could not create leading directories of 'C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\nvim-data\site\pack\packer\start\https://gitlab.com/__tpb/monokai-pro.nvim': Invalid argument

Expected behaviour

monokai-pro.nvim installs correctly, like on Linux

[pidgeon777]

I also confirm this bug:

 ✗ Failed to install https://gitlab.com/yorickpeterse/nvim-window.git
  Errors:
    fatal: could not create leading directories of 'C:\NVIM\data\lunarvim\site\pack\packer\start\https://gitlab.com/yorickpeterse/nvim-window.git': Invalid argument

[cutey-none]

Is there any way to fix this?

[Joaq33]

Try running in powershell as admin

[joaocsf]

I've recently run into this issue as well. As a workaround, you can specify an alias using the as option.

use {
  'https://gitlab.com/__tpb/monokai-pro.nvim',
  as = 'monokai-pro.nvim'
}