Filename too long error while cloning repo

[kiran215]

While cloning repository on local machine getting "Filename too long" error for some of the classes from client-java-contrib module

error: unable to create file client-java-contrib/cert-manager/src/main/java/io/cert/manager/models/V1ChallengeSpecSolverHttp01IngressPodTemplateSpecAffinityNodeAffinityPreferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecutionInnerPreference.java: Filename too long
error: unable to create file client-java-contrib/cert-manager/src/main/java/io/cert/manager/models/V1ChallengeSpecSolverHttp01IngressPodTemplateSpecAffinityNodeAffinityPreferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecutionInnerPreferenceMatchExpressionsInner.java: Filename too long

To resolve the above issue, I executed the command below and then tried to clone the repository, and it worked.

git config --system core.longpaths true

[Storm-Dev6]

Hi @kiran215,

This "Filename too long" error on Windows is a common issue because Windows has a default max path length limit of 260 characters.

To fix this, you can run the following command with administrator privileges on your machine:
git config --system core.longpaths true
This setting allows Git to handle longer file paths on Windows.

Alternatively, you can try cloning the repository to a location with a shorter path (for example directly under C:), or use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which doesn’t have this limitation.

If you don’t have admin rights to run the above command, the only other option would be to rename or shorten the filenames/directories in the repository itself, but this might not be feasible.

Hope this helps!

[brendandburns]

You can also use github codespaces to launch this repo in your browser if you'd rather do development in the cloud.

I'm going to close this since it is not an issue with this client.

[Storm-Dev6]

Hi @brendandburns

Next time say thanks!