I usually develop on a Mac but recently I've had to switch to a Windows machine and after cloning my project, Git is complaining about this:

error: unable to create file sites/all/modules/clientside_validation/clientside_validation_testswarm/features/clientside_validation_test_field_validation/clientside_validation_test_field_validation.default_field_validation_rules.inc: Filename too long

A quick Google search reveals that Git in Windows has a filename length cap and this file exceeds it.

Git proceeds to delete the file - which is annoying.

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jaydee1818 created an issue. See original summary.

SoumyaDas’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Hi @jaydee1818,

Open the Github Powershell or cmd.exe (you need to have git as an environment variable) and execute the following command :

git config --system core.longpaths true

This is working as per the windows behavior.