2015-10-01 6:33 GMT+02:00 Jan Vrany <jan.vr...@fit.cvut.cz>: > On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 16:48 -0700, Dale Henrichs 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 .. > > The limit is actually 260 characters. Not that it helps much :-) > However, there's a way (well, hack) to overcome this limit > using special UNC pathnames like > \\?\C:\very\long\path\here or \\?\UNC\server\share\very\long\path. >
This hack is now implemented in the latest squeak and pharo vm. > > The "only" issue is that not all tools in the chain are using > this hack... > > Jan > > >
