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DNN Repo Broken For Anyone Else?

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Will Strohl
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8/10/2023 4:54 PM

    Hello Everyone: 

    I have no idea why this is happening, but I'm guessing it's an environmental issue.  

    I had just wanted to open the DNN project to do some research on a feature.  I was about 90 commits behind and attempted to do a pull like you would in this case.  It resulted in a fatal timeout error message.  

    I tried troubleshooting that for a while, but ended up deciding it would be faster just to delete it all and close it again.  Boy was I wrong!  

    In attempting to do this, I tried with traditional command line, GitKraken, and the GitHub CLI.  In all instances, I'm unable to successfully clone the repo anymore.  The only time I even see any files transferred is when using the GitHub CLI.  The others fail and there aren't any files in the folder I'm cloning to.  

    Here's the result of the GitHub CLI. 

    I don't have screenshots of the other attempts, but I can certainly generate them all again - except for the error message on the pull.  I need to be able to clone to try a pull again.  

    Is anyone else running into this?  

    Will Strohl
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    8/10/2023 5:02 PM

      If you want to see it in action, here you go!  :) 

      https://app.screencast.com/sMt42SdfWL0bs

      Brian Dukes
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      8/10/2023 5:50 PM

        Looks like it's related to a long path in the repo (introduced recently). A StackOverflow post indicates you may need to adjust your git config to allow it to work with long paths (and/or maybe adjust Windows to allow long paths).

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        Will Strohl
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        8/10/2023 5:59 PM
          Posted By Brian Dukes on 8/10/2023 1:50 PM
          Looks like it's related to a long path in the repo (introduced recently). https://stackoverflow.com/a/22575737/2688 indicates you may need to adjust your git config to allow it to work with long paths (and/or maybe adjust Windows to allow long paths).

          I was afraid it might be something like that.  It won't be a great first-time experience for new developers, but the advice you provided from StackOverflow was spot on, as always.  

          I ran the git config --system core.longpaths true command, it not only worked, something else was interesting to me.  It cloned faster than I've seen it clone before.  Maybe that's just a coincidence, though. 

           

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