On Wed Oct 16, 2024 at 5:35 PM AEDT, James Liu wrote: > 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. Hmm maybe not. MSYS2 on ARM64 isn't fully baked, and I don't have an x86 Windows machine handy.
