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cloning a new fork doesn't transfer all directories #8086

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ndhananj opened this issue Sep 3, 2017 · 1 comment

ndhananj commented Sep 3, 2017

I tried modifying my config for path names. That didn't help.

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ndhananj commented Sep 3, 2017

Okay. I needed to run git bash as administrator. This allowed the config line to actually work.

It wasn't the clone that was failing but the checkout after the clone, because of the long path names.

When I run git bash as an administrator, it allowed the git config --system command to actually run,

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