docker-compose fails at long paths on windows

When running docker-compose build in a project that contains long paths (the path below is exactly 260 chars, the maximum allowed in windows), building fails.

It is related to https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/2473 but it seems the solution lies in this repository, since the stack trace matches with these source files.

Let me know if it should be fixed in another repo.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 62, in main
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 114, in perform_command
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 835, in up
  File "compose\project.py", line 382, in up
  File "compose\service.py", line 305, in ensure_image_exists
  File "compose\service.py", line 727, in build
  File "site-packages\docker\api\build.py", line 55, in build
  File "site-packages\docker\utils\utils.py", line 95, in tar
  File "tarfile.py", line 2007, in add
  File "tarfile.py", line 1879, in gettarinfo
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'C:\\Users\\johnd\\dev\\tmp\\foobar\\node_modules\\gulp-clean\\node_modules\\gulp-util\\node_modules\\dateformat\\node_modules\\meow\\node_modules\\normalize-package-data\\node_modules\\validate-npm-package-license\\node_modules\\spdx-correct\\node_modules\\spdx-license-ids\\LICENSE'
docker-compose returned -1

[BrunoZell]

adding node_modules to your .dockerignore can solve this issue too possibly

[sanchitbh]

Trying to run docker-compose and I keep getting this error:

c:\tmp>docker-compose up
Building web
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "docker-compose", line 6, in <module>
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 68, in main
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 121, in perform_command
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 938, in up
  File "compose\project.py", line 430, in up
  File "compose\service.py", line 317, in ensure_image_exists
  File "compose\service.py", line 918, in build
  File "site-packages\docker\api\build.py", line 148, in build
  File "site-packages\docker\utils\build.py", line 14, in tar
  File "site-packages\docker\utils\utils.py", line 100, in create_archive
  File "tarfile.py", line 1881, in gettarinfo
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: u'c:\\tmp\\var\\node_modules\\axiom\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\pacote\\node_modules\\make-fetch-happen\\node_modules\\http-proxy-agent\\node_modules\\agent-base\\node_modules\\es6-promisify\\node_modules\\es6-promise\\lib\\es6-promise\\promise\\all.js'
Failed to execute script docker-compose

Versions:

c:\tmp>docker -v
Docker version 17.09.0-ce, build afdb6d4

c:\tmp>docker-compose -v
docker-compose version 1.16.1, build 6d1ac219

I guess this is because of MAX_PATH limit on Windows for which I’ve tried enabling the Enable Win32 long paths but I still keeping getting this error.

Any ideas on how I can fix this? In the meantime is there an option to tell docker-compose to ignore this file and run the rest of it anyway?