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From: "James Liu" <james@jamesliu.io>
To: "James Liu" <james@jamesliu.io>, "Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks.im>,
	<git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:27:06 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D4X36E9VX8YW.EGVWW94QFFCU@jamesliu.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4X0SYYSUPWO.CFCUEN5B3MOQ@jamesliu.io>

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.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-16  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-14 12:21 [PATCH 00/10] Platform compatibility fixes Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 01/10] t/test-lib: fix quoting of TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:00   ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 02/10] t/test-lib: wire up NO_ICONV prerequisite Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 03/10] t/lib-gitweb: test against the build version of gitweb Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:06   ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-15 11:36     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 04/10] t/lib-gpg: fix setup of GNUPGHOME in MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:07   ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 05/10] t1401: make invocation of tar(1) work with Win32-provided one Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 23:23   ` Eric Sunshine
2024-10-15  0:29     ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 06/10] t3404: work around platform-specific behaviour on macOS 10.15 Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 07/10] t5500, t5601: skip tests which exercise paths with '[::1]' on Cygwin Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:10   ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 08/10] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 09/10] builtin/credential-cache: fix missing parameter for stub function Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:12   ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 10/10] http: fix build error on FreeBSD Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:14   ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-15 11:44     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] Platform compatibility fixes Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45   ` [PATCH v2 01/10] t/test-lib: fix quoting of TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45   ` [PATCH v2 02/10] t/test-lib: wire up NO_ICONV prerequisite Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 23:53     ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-16  3:57       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 20:59         ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-16 21:02           ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-17  4:03             ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45   ` [PATCH v2 03/10] t/lib-gitweb: test against the build version of gitweb Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45   ` [PATCH v2 04/10] t/lib-gpg: fix setup of GNUPGHOME in MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  5:59     ` James Liu
2024-10-15 11:45   ` [PATCH v2 05/10] t1401: make invocation of tar(1) work with Win32-provided one Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  5:58     ` James Liu
2024-10-15 11:45   ` [PATCH v2 06/10] t3404: work around platform-specific behaviour on macOS 10.15 Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  6:02     ` James Liu
2024-10-15 11:45   ` [PATCH v2 07/10] t5500, t5601: skip tests which exercise paths with '[::1]' on Cygwin Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45   ` [PATCH v2 08/10] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  6:35     ` James Liu
2024-10-16  8:27       ` James Liu [this message]
2024-10-15 11:45   ` [PATCH v2 09/10] builtin/credential-cache: fix missing parameter for stub function Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45   ` [PATCH v2 10/10] http: fix build error on FreeBSD Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  8:12 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Platform compatibility fixes Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  8:12   ` [PATCH v3 01/10] t/test-lib: fix quoting of TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  8:12   ` [PATCH v3 02/10] t/test-lib: wire up NO_ICONV prerequisite Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-17  1:10     ` brian m. carlson
2024-10-17  4:03       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-25 18:32     ` Josh Steadmon
2024-10-28  5:14       ` [PATCH] t6006: fix prereq handling with `test_format ()` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-28 17:48         ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-16  8:12   ` [PATCH v3 03/10] t/lib-gitweb: test against the build version of gitweb Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  8:12   ` [PATCH v3 04/10] t/lib-gpg: fix setup of GNUPGHOME in MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  8:13   ` [PATCH v3 05/10] t1401: make invocation of tar(1) work with Win32-provided one Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  8:13   ` [PATCH v3 06/10] t3404: work around platform-specific behaviour on macOS 10.15 Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  8:13   ` [PATCH v3 07/10] t5500, t5601: skip tests which exercise paths with '[::1]' on Cygwin Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  8:13   ` [PATCH v3 08/10] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  8:13   ` [PATCH v3 09/10] builtin/credential-cache: fix missing parameter for stub function Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16  8:13   ` [PATCH v3 10/10] http: fix build error on FreeBSD Patrick Steinhardt

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