Note I was explicitly talking about spaces in the current directory (which is only dependent on where the user clones the repo), not spaces in the workspace (wh

Note I was explicitly talking about spaces in the current directory (which is only dependent on where the user clones the repo), not spaces in the workspace (which depends on what's in the repo). Your examples are about the latter. The latter isn't as big of a deal because the repo owner at least has control over the contents and can avoid putting spaces in file names (and use relative paths everywhere). But they can't control where the user clones their repo.