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windows long filenames should be fixed now by new ghc

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Joey Hess 2019-07-22 09:44:09 -04:00
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@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ git-annex (7.20190709) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
old version of git-annex-shell.
* Windows build is now 64 bit, and using it with the 64 bit git for
Windows is fully supported.
* Windows problems with long filenames should be fixed now,
since the Windows build is made with a newer ghc version that works
around the problems.
-- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> Mon, 08 Jul 2019 08:59:54 -0400

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@ -4,19 +4,6 @@ usable!
## status
* There can be problems when the git-annex repository is in a deep
or long path. Ie, `C:\loooooooooooooooooongdir\`.
[Details here](http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/__34__git-annex:_direct:_1_failed__34___on_Windows)
Workaround: Put your git-annex repo in `C:\annex` or some similar short
path if possible.
Workaround: Enable long paths in the registry. See
<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247#maxpath>
ghc 8.61 fixes this!
<https://downloads.haskell.org/%7Eghc/8.6.1/docs/html/users_guide/win32-dlls.html#windows-file-paths>
* Local pairing seems to fail, after acking on Linux box, it stalls.
(Also, of course, the Windows box is unlikely to have a ssh server,
so only pairing with a !Windows box will work.)
@ -29,16 +16,6 @@ usable!
* Tor remotes are not supported yet. Should not be very hard to get it working.
* Due to bundling rsync.exe, the windows installer needs to be installed
with git for windows 32 bit, not 64 bit. It would be possible to switch
to a 64 bit rsync.exe build, but then 32 bit git for windows would not
work. Better, perhaps, to drop rsync.exe from the bundle; it's only
needed when talking to older versions of git-annex-shell, and of course
for rsync special remotes, but if the users wants to use the latter, they
can install rsync themselves.
Postponed until old versions of git-annex-shell are less common..
## potential encoding problems
[[bugs/Unicode_file_names_ignored_on_Windows]] is fixed, but some potential