Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW

> 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.