cannot clone the repository

[ykurahara]

I'm in trouble, thus strongly require to fix this issue.

I tried to clone the repository. But I can't and got the following errors;

MINGW64 ~/hoge
$ git clone https://github.com/dalehenrich/filetree.git
Cloning into 'filetree'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 16316, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (116/116), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (59/59), done.
remote: Total 16316 (delta 51), reused 116 (delta 51), pack-reused 16200
Receiving objects: 100% (16316/16316), 2.99 MiB | 202.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (8362/8362), done.
error: invalid path 'tests/testRepositories/ver03/Cypress-Mocks.pkg/snapshot/classes/CypressMockBasic.class/class/current:.st'
fatal: unable to checkout working tree
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'

MINGW64 ~/hoge
$ ls
filetree/

MINGW64 ~/hoge
$ cd filetree/

MINGW64 ~/hoge/filetree (gemstone2.4)
$ ls

Cannot see any files!!

MINGW64 ~/hoge/filetree (gemstone2.4)
$ git restore --source=HEAD :/
error: invalid path 'tests/testRepositories/ver03/Cypress-Mocks.pkg/snapshot/classes/CypressMockBasic.class/class/current:.st'
error: invalid path 'tests/testRepositories/ver03/Cypress-Mocks.pkg/snapshot/classes/CypressMockBasic.class/instance/name:.st'
error: invalid path 'tests/testRepositories/ver04/Cypress-Mocks.tree/CypressMockBasic/name:.st'
error: invalid path 'tests/testRepositories/ver04/Cypress-Mocks.tree/CypressMockBasic_class/current:.st'

MINGW64 ~/hoge/filetree (gemstone2.4)
$ ls
README.md doc/ license.txt repository/ tests/ tode/

MINGW64 ~/hoge/filetree (gemstone2.4)
$

Best regards,
Yasuhiro Kurahara

[dalehenrich]

I'm guessing that you are trying to clone this repo on a windows machine ... Windows has trouble with long directory paths ... it has been several years since I have had to resolve a Windows-based issue and at the end of the day I think that you have to hack the repository paths to get it to clone to Windows ... GemStone doesn't run on Windows, so I'm not sure what you are planning on using the repository for ... if you are using Squeak and Pharo, I believe that folks that use those platforms can help you with your problem ...

[ThierryGoubier]

Hi @dalehenrich, @ykurahara. Have you tried to enable long paths support in Windows and git? According to https://gist.github.com/leodutra/a25bc1f51e8779943df0a95d5a4839d1, you may have to change a windows setting
and enable git long paths support with git config --system core.longpaths true.

[dalehenrich]

Thanks @ThierryGoubier! I do use git on Windows ... but it is good to know that there is a solution out there...