Pycharm behaving strange with Git (Filename in tree entry contains backslash)

Question

I just got a new laptop and wanted to clone my universities git repository with pycharm.

Whenever I try to clone the repository, using either Git bash/GUI

Answer 1

See VonC's answer for update on the issue

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There is an open issue on git-for-windows repository (for v2.24)

Git 2.24 breaks existing repositories: filename in tree entry contains backslash

The workaround as suggested by user carlescufi is to disable core.protectNTFS.

git config --global core.protectNTFS false

Quoting git docs here,

core.protectNTFS

If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would cause problems with the NTFS filesystem, e.g. conflict with 8.3 "short" names. Defaults to true on Windows, and false elsewhere.