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Can't do git clean on windows, paths too long

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce

Do a fresh clone on a windows box
Build
git clean -fdx (careful, see step 1)

Expected behavior

It works

Actual behavior

Warnings (1 of many shown below), not everything is cleaned

warning: Could not stat path 'test/dotnet-publish.Tests/bin/Debug/netcoreapp1.0/PortableAppWithIntentionalDowngradePublishesDowngradedManagedCode/
PortableTests/PortableAppWithIntentionalManagedDowngrade/bin/Debug/netcoreapp1.0/PortableAppWithIntentionalManagedDowngrade.deps.json': 
Filename too long

Guessing CLI team doesn’t use Windows much 😁 @eerhardt have you seen this?

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:7 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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livarcocccommented, Feb 7, 2017

I have used this for a while with success: git config --system core.longpaths true. @nguerrera if this does not solve it for you, please, re-activate.

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TheRealPiotrPcommented, Nov 3, 2016

http://ourcodeworld.com/articles/read/109/how-to-solve-filename-too-long-error-in-git-powershell-and-github-application-for-windows

I haven’t tried it, but I’m hopeful 😃 Can you let us know if this works, @nguerrera ?

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