This is particularly important on Windows, where PATH_MAX is very small compared to Unix/Linux. Johannes Schindelin (1): clean: show an error message when the path is too long builtin/clean.c | 3 ++- t/t7300-clean.sh | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) base-commit: aa25c82427ae70aebf3b8f970f2afd54e9a2a8c6 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-219%2Fdscho%2Fclean-long-paths-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-219/dscho/clean-long-paths-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/219 -- gitgitgadget