Encountered a very perplexing problem.

My files show up as having no contents both in a PR and while browsing the repo.

However, when I view commits and click on the folder it shows up correctly.

If I click on the file itself, it shows no content.

It only happens with a few specific files. Deleting these files, pushing, then creating them anew and pushing does not solve the problem.

Re-naming them doesn't make a difference. Nor does re-naming the parent directory.

Created a new branch from the master branch and re-created the same files manually, still same issue.

Pulling this branch works correctly and the files show up as they're supposed to. Downloading the file contents from Devops also gets the correct file.

The files look to be UTF-8 when viewed in VSCode and Sublime, and ASCII when using "file"-command in Bash. They don't seem different in any way from other files in the repo, which are displayed as expected.

Now in theory the PR can still be reviewed by looking at the commit history or looking at the branch locally.

However I would really like to find the cause of this issue so it doesn't risk spreading.

I would expect that it could be a bug in Devops, which feels unlikely since I have spent hours googling without finding any reports. Other than that, it might be an encoding issue.

The tools I'm using are WSL Ubuntu, VSCode and Git CLI. All files have been created in that environment, not copied from any Windows filesystem.

I would be very appreciative of any suggestions. Apologies for not being able to insert images inline (my post score is too low), all links lead to imgur.

CodePudding user response：

Please try to view the network trace by clicking F12 to open the Develop tools, and see if there is any error message in it. You can compare the network trace when opening the files that seems empty and not empty to find the difference.

Then you found the cause is that you are building an integration for Google Ads and uBlock origin blocked out the file containing "google ads" in its name.