How to set global git parameters

[RDR]

Hi,

Hopefully this is a simple question and I'm missing something obvious....

I'm running Jenkins on a Windows based OS and I'm pulling my code from Git. However the job is failing with the message:

     Could not checkout null with start point

After a bit of digging it turns out that the path for some of the files exceeds the Windows 260 character limit. Since I'm using git version 1.9.5 I'd like to use the git 
"core.longpaths true" setting to get around this problem...

My question is how to enable this setting inside Jenkins. In the Configure Jenkins screen I can see options to set "user.name" and "user.email" but that's all.
I don't don't appear to be able set "core.longpaths" (or any other git configuration). Does Jenkins only support these two configuration options or have I missed something?

Cheers

[Mark Waite]

I'm not aware of a way to set other git parameters globally.  Since each global git parameter has the chance to surprise the git plugin with conditions it had never before seen, I'm hesitant to allow a lot of different global configuration settings.

The e-mail and user name settings are required in order to avoid a warning / complaint from git.

The core.longpath setting is a Windows specific setting, and it is accompanied by warnings in the msysgit documentation.  There are tests in the git client plugin GitAPITestCase that assert core.longpaths works as expected when using command line git.  

You could also consider enabling JGit and using JGit on your Windows machines.  The JGit implementation does not have the path length limitations of msysgit.

Mark Waite

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Thanks!

Mark Waite

[RDR]

I'll give that a go. Thanks for your advice.

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