git pull aborted with error filename too long

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I m using Windows as my OS  and working on a project with a friend who s using a Mac  He checked in code to our Github   I was trying to git pull everything he did and it aborted with  filename too long  errors of 3rd party code   What can I do

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Solution1 - set global config  by running this command   git config --system core longpaths true     Solution2 - or you can edit directly your specific git config file like below   YourRepoFolder -   git -  config    core      repositoryformatversion   0     filemode   false             longpaths   true         lt --  add this line under core section      Solution3 - when cloning a new repository  here

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As someone that has ran into this problem constantly with java repositories on Windows  the best solution is to install Cygwin  https   www cygwin com   and use its git installation under all   devel   git     The reason this is the best solution I have come across is since Cygwin manages the long path names so other provided commands benefit  Ex  find  cp and rm   Trust me  the real problem begins when you have to delete path names that are too long in Windows

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The msysgit FAQ on Git cannot create a filedirectory with a long path doesn t seem up to date  as it still links to old msysgit ticket  110  However  according to later ticket  122 the problem has been fixed in msysgit 1 9  thus    Update to msysgit 1 9  or later  Launch Git Bash Go to your Git repository which  suffers  of long paths issue Enable long paths support with git config core longpaths true   So far  it s worked for me very well   Be aware of important notice in comment on the ticket  122     don t come back here and complain that it breaks Windows Explorer    cmd exe  bash or whatever tools you re using

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On windows run  cmd   as administrator and execute command     C  Program Files Git mingw64 etc gt    git config --system core longpaths true    or you have to chmod for the folder whereever git is installed    or manullay update your file manually by going to path  Git mingw64 etc     http      sslBackend   schannel  diff  astextplain       textconv   astextplain  filter  lfs       clean   git-lfs clean --  f     smudge   git-lfs smudge --  f     process   git-lfs filter-process     required   true  credential      helper   manager    core      longpaths   true

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Open your gitconfig file to add the longpaths property  So it will look like the following    core  symlinks   false autocrlf   true longpaths   true

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A few years late  but I d like to add that if you need to do this in one fell swoop  like I did  you can set the config settings during the clone command  Try this   git clone -c core longpaths true  lt your url here gt

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Try to keep your files closer to the file system root  More details   for technical reasons  Git for Windows cannot create files or directories when the absolute path is longer than 260 characters

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