On Tue Oct 15, 2024 at 10:45 PM AEDT, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > Windows by default has a restriction in place to only allow paths up to > 260 characters. This restriction can nowadays be lifted by setting a > registry key, but is still active by default. > > In t7300 we have one test that exercises the behaviour of git-clean(1) > with such long paths. Interestingly enough, this test fails on my system > that uses Windows 10 with mingw-w64 installed via MSYS2: instead of > observing ENAMETOOLONG, we observe ENOENT. This behaviour is consistent > across multiple different environments I have tried. > > I cannot say why exactly we observe a different error here, but I would > not be surprised if this was either dependent on the Windows version, > the version of MinGW, the current working directory of Git or any kind > of combination of these. That's very strange. I'll try it on my Windows 11 23H2 system to see if I can observe the same behaviour. I think it's fine to just catch both cases in the test anyway.
