I know it's an incredibly late reply, but I have not seen this issue reappear since the patches. Thank you very much for helping! - Bret On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 4:20 PM Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Bret, > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2019, Bret Barkelew wrote: > > > This issue is now being reported by more users inside MS. I'll also > > reach out to the Git for Windows advocacy group to see if they have > > any ideas. > > > > I have not had time to figure out the inner workings of Tcl/Tk. Is > > there any way to turn on tracing/logging in Git for which commands are > > being called by gitk? > > Thank you for reaching out with detailed information internally, I am > happy to report that together with the help of Max Kirillov, this is now > resolved and a snapshot is available from > https://wingit.blob.core.windows.net/files/index.html that has the fix. > > Ciao, > Johannes > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:55 AM Bret Barkelew <bret@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 7:20 AM Johannes Schindelin > > > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Bret, > > > > > > > > in that case, please try to find a way to trace the commands in a Tcl/Tk > > > > program (which gitk is) and see which command triggers the error. > > > > > > Er... that's a little out of my depth. I'll see if I can find time to learn. > > > Meanwhile, is there any way to request better instrumentation for the > > > error dialog so this data could have been collected for me? > > > > > > > > > > > Ciao, > > > > Johannes > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Bret Barkelew wrote: > > > > > > > > > Will try to reply in-line, when appropriate. > > > > > The latest snapshot (git version 2.20.1.windows.1.5.g6b286585b1) still > > > > > has the issue. > > > > > > > > > > - Bret > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 10:39 AM Johannes Schindelin > > > > > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Bret, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2019, Bret Barkelew wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > They are the exact same path (with a different drive letter). > > > > > > > > > > > > [it's a bit hard to follow the thread if you top-post a reply to an > > > > > > inline-replied answer, maybe imitate the style of other mails in the > > > > > > future.] > > > > > > > > > > > > > Another thing I've been able to confirm is I uninstalled git 2.20.1 > > > > > > > and installed 2.19.0 on the failing system, and the older version of > > > > > > > Git works. > > > > > > > I've also tried a suggested fix I saw elsewhere to enable long path > > > > > > > names in the Windows registry, which did not resolve the issue with > > > > > > > git 2.20.1. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Happy to collect any additional data. > > > > > > > > > > > > Please try the latest snapshot at > > > > > > https://wingit.blob.core.windows.net/files/index.html (I *think* the bug > > > > > > might be fixed via > > > > > > https://github.com/git-for-windows/MINGW-packages/pull/32). > > > > > > > > > > > > Ciao, > > > > > > Johannes > > > > > > > > > > > > > - Bret > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 7:10 PM Bryan Turner <bturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 6:21 PM Bret Barkelew <bret@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> When I open gitk in a particular repository under this version of Git > > > > > > > >> for Windows, I now get a dialog box that says "Error: couldn't execute > > > > > > > >> "git": file name too long". I've noticed that the most pronounced > > > > > > > >> effect is that I cannot see the file diffs (or sometimes the file name > > > > > > > >> list) for any of the commits. I don't know the exact repro, but I've > > > > > > > >> narrowed down the following things: > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> - This does not happen with the same repo if I use a system that has > > > > > > > >> git 2.19.0.windows.1 on another machine. > > > > > > > >> - This does not happen on my current machine in a freshly cloned repo. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How “deep” are the paths to the different clones on the different systems? Are all of the clones at exactly the same path on disk? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Git on Windows is (by defaulted) limited by MAX_PATH, which is 260 characters. That length is calculated including the path to the repository itself and then to the file inside the repository. That means, for example, a given repository cloned to C:\repo may not have issues, but the same repository cloned to C:\Users\Bryan\Documents\workspaces\repo may. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> However, as soon as the remote updates with any changes on a given > > > > > > > >> fetch/pull, the repo is put in a bad state permanently. > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> I've pasted the output from gitk below... > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> couldn't execute "git": file name too long > > > > > > > >> couldn't execute "git": file name too long > > > > > > > >> while executing > > > > > > > >> "open $cmd r" > > > > > > > >> (procedure "getallcommits" line 48) > > > > > > > >> invoked from within > > > > > > > >> "getallcommits" > > > > > > > >> (procedure "readcache" line 80) > > > > > > > >> invoked from within > > > > > > > >> "readcache file827e200" > > > > > > > >> ("eval" body line 1) > > > > > > > >> invoked from within > > > > > > > >> "eval $script" > > > > > > > >> (procedure "dorunq" line 11) > > > > > > > >> invoked from within > > > > > > > >> "dorunq" > > > > > > > >> ("after" script) > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> Happy to gather whatever data needed. > > > > > > > >> Thanks! > > > > > > > >> - Bret Barkelew > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
