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Error: Can't find application template hello-world-typescript - check valid values in interactive init

See original GitHub issue

After upgrading SAM CLI to version 1.50.0 from 1.47.0, sam init stopped working for nodejs16.x runtime and Hello World Example TypeScript template. We are getting the following error:

Error: Can't find application template hello-world-typescript - check valid values in interactive init

Environment: Windows 10

Can anyone please help me with this asap?

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nickadamcommented, May 18, 2022

I had the same problem in windows. I traced the cli and found the git command it’s failing on. I was able to fix it by setting git longpaths true.

git.exe clone https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli-app-templates aws-sam-cli-app-templates                          ─╯
Cloning into 'aws-sam-cli-app-templates'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 5500, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1569/1569), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (430/430), done. eceiving objects:   0% (1/5500)
remote: Total 5500 (delta 1362), reused 1193 (delta 1138), pack-reused 3931
Receiving objects: 100% (5500/5500), 21.08 MiB | 38.89 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3686/3686), done.
error: unable to create file dotnetcore3.1/cookiecutter-aws-sam-quick-start-cloudwatch-events-dotnet/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/test/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}.Tests/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}.Tests.csproj: Filename too long
fatal: cannot create directory at 'provided.al2/graalvm/java11/cookiecutter-aws-sam-graalvm-gradle/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/HelloWorldFunction/src/main/resources/META-INF/native-image/com.amazonaws/aws-lambda-java-core': Filename too long
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'

The fix (run from elevated prompt to configure for --system)

git config --system core.longpaths true

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mndevecicommented, May 19, 2022

Thanks for confirming. I will be resolving this and leave the other one open for now. Please let us know if the recommended actions in other issue (https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli/issues/3781) is not resolving your problem.

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