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Invalid Argument Error in Vim Vundle

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I am a Vim user when it comes to editors.

I do not customize it aggressively by endlessly tweaking configuration files, but I do install plugins to extend it.

I use Vundle to manage plugins, and while I was experimenting with various settings recently, BundleInstall started failing and I could no longer install plugins.

When I checked the error log, I saw the following.

[120927 15:08:38] $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/vim-scripts/Wombat.git 'C:/Vim/vimfiles/bundle/Wombat' [120927 15:08:38] > fatal: could not create leading directories of ''C:/Vim/vimfiles/bundle/Wombat'': Invalid argument

The cause was the following setting in _vimrc.

set shellslash

After commenting it out and running the installation again, everything completed successfully.