NPM check fails with whitespace in path

[cmahnke]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Package ecosystem

NPM

Package manager version

No response

Language version

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Manifest location and content before the Dependabot update

/Source Files/Mocks/package.json

dependabot.yml content

• package-ecosystem: "npm"
  directory: "/Source Files/Mocks/"
  schedule:
  interval: "weekly"
  groups:
  npm-mocks:
  patterns:
  - '*'

Updated dependency

No response

What you expected to see, versus what you actually saw

This will jus fail, from the logs one can see that /Source (truncated at space) doesn't exist..

The following constructs don't work as well:

directory: "'/Source Files/Mocks/'"
directory: "/Source\ Files/Mocks/"
directory: "/Source\\ Files/Mocks/"

Close only if https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file#directories has been updated with a note on how to use space characters in paths

See also #8633. But this shouldn't be packaging specific in any case...

[cmahnke]

Strangely it now works:

• Example failing https://github.com/cmahnke/christianmahnke/actions/runs/10887709226/job/30210559360
• Working https://github.com/cmahnke/christianmahnke/actions/runs/10909765320/job/30278702524

Since the haven't been a release the last 36 hours the issue was likely dueto some dependency - consider adding a test case If it's not under the direct control of GitHub.

[Laptop765]

I think this line is also failing when there is a space in the path:

run_shell_command("git add #{path}")

The path doesn't seem to be escaped for spaces. I get an error like this:

updater | 2024/08/20 06:02:34 ERROR <job_871613656> fatal: pathspec '{{REMAINING PATH AFTER THE SPACE}}' did not match any files

Edit: mine is a NuGet project.