One way is: $ git config --system core.longpaths true
My tests seem to indicate (at least on one machine) that msysgit 2.8.0 and later seems to be enabling core.longpaths as true. That is an observed behavior, not anything I could confirm in the README or release notes, and may be that I'm mistaken. Mark Waite On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:42 AM Simon Richter <simon.rich...@hogyros.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to check out Boost, which has a file with a fairly long file > name, so the checkout fails on Windows. This could be fixed apparently > by setting the git setting core.longpaths to true. > > How can I add that setting to newly created workspaces? > > Simon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/18c20057-3d6f-1257-0646-820dc73d858a%40hogyros.de > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtHM9G2_2b1y6Q3T9ioyi90nTUkQ-_9TE8W0j7ygDFh3Ng%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
