Azure devops pipeline checkout fails on Windows agent due to path length limits

Question

We have code in github, public repo & use Azure devops for doing pre-merge PR checks, and post merge builds, amongst other things. The pipelines are defined in yaml in the git repo. Recently I wanted to add a Windows post-merge build. However the build failed before it even executed my tasks due to path name length restrictions. The pipeline definition is at https://github.com/odpi/egeria/blob/master/.azure-pipelines/win.yml We trigger off a new commit in master, and the next task is simply to do a maven build. When I saw the failures I added a task to update the git config, but this of course runs after the git clone Here's an example build: https://dev.azure.com/ODPi/Egeria/_build/results?buildId=13272&view=logs&j=4dc6fbf2-95db-5f93-ea5a-117822a16d38 It's the checkout stage of the job fails, which is done implicitly rather than explicitly. How can I fix this? The builds are all fine for Linux of course (and many of us use MacOS or linux)

Answer 1

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