Long file names (length > 260) should have special prefix #24
Description
...what i hate about java developers - is their love for redundant prefixes in every subfolder.
I thought it might be due to TortoiseGIT, yet the console git did me the same.
I thought my T-Git log would remain in clipboard, silly me.
Okay, i was cloning https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform into c:\XWiki.src\xwiki-platform
It downloaded the pack checked delta's and then started checking out.
It then spitted one error that it cannot create file.
It then continued and finally said it is 100% okay.
To me it seems very strange - at elast one error happened, at least one file was not checked out, yet git reports cloning success. Maybe it is right, dunno, but looks strange.
I looked manually and yes, there was some file and some folder missed,
And git.exe could do northing about that.
See http://pastebin.ca/2172286
The problem is those redundant pathnames are crossing 260 length boundary - see http://jsfiddle.net/eaukk/
To access longer pathnames one should use special prefix and Unicode-aware version of function.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#maxpath