On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:34 PM Jack Adrian Zappa
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey Anthony,
>
> Are you sure that you have 8.3 active on the partition you are using?
> IIRC, It is not on by default anymore. To see, go to a cmd line and
> type "dir /x". If there are any files that exceed the 8.3 format, it
> will show those files with two names, the 8.3 name and the long name.
>
> If it is off and you want to turn it on, see
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/121007/how-to-disable-8-3-file-name-creation-on-ntfs-partitions.
> and
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/ff621566(v=ws.11)
> for more information.
>
>
> A
>
Yes, it appears they are enabled -- see below
C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Temp\t\longname-repo>git add
C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Temp\t\longna~1\f
fatal: C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Temp\t\longna~1\f:
'C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Temp\t\longna~1\f' is outside
repository
C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Temp\t\longname-repo>git add
C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Temp\t\longname-repo\f
C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Temp\t\longname-repo>dir /x ..
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 3A97-874F
Directory of C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Temp\t
03/11/2019 01:11 PM <DIR> .
03/11/2019 01:11 PM <DIR> ..
03/11/2019 01:11 PM <DIR> LONGNA~1 longname-repo
0 File(s) 0 bytes
3 Dir(s) 20,063,666,176 bytes free
