The solution was to use a pre-downloaded Git installer to build my docker images. (How convenient it would have been to get my project working with say Chocolatey! Oh well.) The problem was that external downloads were only permitted from Open the Github Powershell or cmd.exe (you need to have git as an environment variable) and execute the following command : git config -system core.longpaths trueĪs we are changing the configuration of git, you can execute it directly in your project or from any path if the Git variable is available.As you probably have guessed, I did all my development on a Windows server.

GitHub.IO.ProcessException: fatal: unable to stat 'plugins/toolongname/example/app/platforms/toolongname/toolongname/build/intermediates/classes/debug/org/toolongname/toolongname/toolongname$toolongname$toolongname.class': Filename too longĪs you can see, indeed the filename (or path) has more than 260 characters, Git has a limit of 4096 characters for a filename, but on windows when the git client is compiled with msys (for example the official GitHub application for windows), it uses an older version of the windows api and there's a limit of 260 characters for a filepath. If you open the log, an error with the following description should be listed : 14:02:42.8556|WARN|thread: 1|StandardUserErrors|Showing user error Failed to create a new commit. You can read more about the 260 characters limit in windows here. This applies to Windows Explorer, cmd.exe,GitHub for windows and many other applications (including many IDEs as well as bash, perl and tcl that come with Git for Windows). For that reason, the long paths support in Git for Windows is disabled by default.

Windows does not properly support files and directories longer than 260 characters.

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