forum/Dealing with long filenamesgit-annexhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Dealing_with_long_filenames/git-annexikiwiki2017-03-02T18:04:29Zcomment 1http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Dealing_with_long_filenames/comment_1_373798ea9763d3a0be5ce78f7e3f79f0/joey2017-03-02T18:04:29Z2017-03-02T18:01:51Z
<p>It depends, is it failing because the filenames checked into git are too
long? Or because the symlinks are links to too long paths?</p>
<p>In the former case, you can <code>git rename</code> files as you like.
As with any change you make to files in a git repository, that will
propigate to other git repositories in the usual ways.</p>
<p>In the latter case, you might be using a hash like SHA512 that causes
problimatically long paths, and then <code>git annex migrate --backend=SHA256</code> might
help.</p>