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While I have as much disrespect for Windows and MS in general as any web developer who had to deal with IE, I think this issue is a bug in Git. Windows git exe
by Drdrdrq 8y ago
While I have as much disrespect for Windows and MS in general as any web developer who had to deal with IE, I think this issue is a bug in Git.
Windows git executable should be aware of OS limitations and should be able to work around them. Of course, Windows API should also fail to create invalid fs objects, so there's that...
- satysin 8y agoI kind of agree and disagree at the same time. Microsoft provide file system access which is not impacted by MAX_PATH and that is what git is using when it writes to the file system. If anything I think Microsoft should fix Explorer which they kind of have in Windows 10 with the long path option. I don't know enough about why Microsoft still have the MAX_PATH problem. I am guessing, like most things Microsoft, it is due to legacy compatibility.