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From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Alexey Kasyanchuk <degitx@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Big path on git add file [windows bug]
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:40:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01b34f993289e7dcef5c6fef3d855372@dscho.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMg53oum4s2HE5A-H4g-3N8akOm4KetHM6ntUqRPnygLRALwpw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Alexey,

On 2015-09-16 10:01, Alexey Kasyanchuk wrote:
> I tried add one of node.js module to git project. But add operation failed:
> 
> libgit2 returned: Invalid path for filesystem
> 'E:/Projects/vsteams/node_modules/gulp-imagemin/node_modules/imagemin/node_modules/imagemin-gifsicle/node_modules/gifsicle/node_modules/bin-build/node_modules/decompress/node_modules/decompress-tar/node_modules/strip-dirs/node_modules/is-natural-number/is-natural-number-cjs.js':
> Data area passed to a system call is too small.

It is indeed too small for normal operations (MAX_PATH is somewhere around 248). However, as far as I know, libgit2 has internal code to convert the path into a form that the Win32 API can handle.

> Is this windows problem or problem with libgit2 realization on windows
> (windows 7 by the way)? It looked like problem with big system path
> (276 symbols). May be some sulution for this?

Yes, there is a sulution for this. But it is unclear whether you have that already or not because you were a little parsimonious with information. For example, I have no idea which libgit2 version you use, in which context, what program you use to call libgit2, etc.

So I am left guessing, which is a little bit inefficient.

In any case, the work-around for the issue you described is in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/cceae9a25d0bed8b00f4981e051d5f380ef54401 which is part of v0.22.1.

> Version: Git-2.5.2.2-64-bit

No, that is not the correct version. This looks like the current Git for Windows version, but the error you reported is clearly a libgit2 error message. And that Git for Windows version contains no libgit2 at all.

Please clarify. You might want to err on the side of verbosity to avoid unnecessary back-and-forth.

Ciao,
Johannes

      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-16  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-16  8:01 Big path on git add file [windows bug] Alexey Kasyanchuk
2015-09-16  9:40 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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