From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:03:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] clean: show an error message when the path is too long
Message-ID: <xmqqef2nz5xe.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <c7b11fe410196c14e142756a036e2bdae5d4bcab.1563442231.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> Without an error message when `lstat()` failed, `git clean` would
> abort without an error message, leaving the user quite puzzled.

Let's drop the first three words ;-)  Sorry for not catching it
earlier and parrotting the same mistake in my variant yesterday.

> In particular on Windows, where the default maximum path length is quite
> small (yet there are ways to circumvent that limit in many cases), it is
> very important that users be given an indication why their command
> failed because of too long paths when it did.

s/it is very important that users be given/it helps to give users/