Runner for Windows fails to clone when commit message is a single non-ASCII character

Summary

Runner for Windows fails to clone git repos on Windows OS with non-English locales when the commit message is a single character.

Steps to reproduce

Create your Windows runner:

  1. Create and connect remotely to a Windows OS EC2 server
  2. Install GitLab runner for Windows
  3. Go to Settings > Time & Language > Add a language
  4. Select and install a language such as Korean or Japanese
  5. Configure the system locale in powershell. Ex: Set-WinSystemLocale ko-KR
  6. Reboot server

On GitLab:

  1. Create a new commit with a project that has a .gitlab-ci.yml file
  2. Enter the commit message test and commit. This works ✅
  3. Enter the commit message あ and commit. This fails ❌
  4. Enter the commit message ああ and commit. This works ✅
  5. Enter the commit message 한 and commit. This fails ❌
  6. Enter the commit message 한한 and commit. This works ✅

Example Project

https://gitlab.com/mbadeau/450946

Workaround

Set the Windows system locale to en-US.

In Powershell, run Set-WinSystemLocale en-US and then reboot.

Possible fixes

Edited by Matthew Badeau