2015-09-29 10:50 GMT+02:00 Henrik Johansen <henrik.s.johan...@veloxit.no>:
> > On 29 Sep 2015, at 1:48 , Dale Henrichs <dale.henri...@gemtalksystems.com> > wrote: > > The big issue for git and windows (in general) is that there is a 255 > character limit on the paths for files .... I recently pruned some file > names for Metacello (on a win-hack branch) just to get Metacello to work > with filetree .. > > Working with Github Desktop[1] for Windows makes the experience of using > git from the command line tolerable on Windows - you get a retty nice bash > shell to work with so as a non-windows user I can work in a pretty familiar > environment ... > > At the moment I'm working with Pharo3.0 on Windows, so I don't have any > useful feedback right now (assuming things have changed a bit on Windows > with Pharo4.0 and Pharo5.0) ... > > Dale > > > IIRC, there is some flag you can set to make (some?) the actual git client > (but not bundled tools) support long filenames on Windows: > git config core.longpaths true > For instance, cloning the PharoVM repo choked (or rather, failed > semi-silently) on some really long selector in an obscure plugin somewhere > until I found that... > Interesting. This could allow gitfiletree(*) to load from a repository where filetree would fail to load... but both would fail upon writing :( (*) gitfiletree loads packages via a call to git archive and may so avoid some of the long paths. Thierry > > Cheers, > Henry >
