Am 21.10.2013 03:31, schrieb Duy Nguyen: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Antoine Pelisse <apeli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My main motive was to not *stop* the process when a long path is met. >> Because somebody created a repository on Linux with a long file-name >> doesn't mean you should not be able to clone it *at all* on Windows. > > That should be handled at the Windows compatibility layer if Windows > cannot handle long paths as Linux
Naah... PATH_MAX is a silly, arbitrary limit. The Git data model does not forbid paths longer than PATH_MAX, be it 4096 or 260. A generic solution is needed. > (or maybe at higher level to skip > checking out those paths). More like this, yeah. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
