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Project Euler challenges breaks Windows filename length restrictions

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Describe the bug The Project Euler challenge filenames are larger than the limits specified by Windows 10 on filename lengths. I came across this while trying to get my local repo up to date with master, and it threw an error -

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To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

git fetch upstream master
git reset --hard upstream/master
See error

Expected behavior Filename should be truncated to match the length restrictions on MS Windows.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

OS: Windows 10
Browser: Chrome
Version: 69

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State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:9 (9 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Nirajn2311commented, Oct 25, 2018

@Manish-Giri The following command helped me get over this issue

git config --system core.longpaths true

I was using Git Bash, so I’m not sure if it will work in cmd.

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scissorsneedfoodtoocommented, Nov 16, 2018

@Manish-Giri, just took a look at this on my Windows machine and the filename lengths don’t seem to be a problem anymore. Granted, my path is a couple of characters shorter than yours, but it seems safe to close this for now.