On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:34 PM Jack Adrian Zappa <adrianh.bsc@xxxxxxxxx> 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