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Git clone of freecodecamp automatically delete file's because of big path for windows .

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Hi ! when i clone this repo it’s automatically delete file with big path in windows . So i wrote this command in git : git config --system core.longpaths true I will try to solve this issue as soon as possible and create pull request for this .

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  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

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raisedadeadcommented, Aug 27, 2019

I am going to close this because this is a rare case, and we cant provide support for Git a standard tool. Such support maybe found elsewhere on Stackoverflow.

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raisedadeadcommented, Aug 25, 2019

Technically, we do not support OS / Browsers or software which are not currently in stable release / support mode. Windows 7 EOL is January, 2020.

I am fine with adding the note, but its strongly discouraged to continue supporting legacy software / OS.

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