Cannot checkout repo on Windows

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$ git clone https://github.com/veloce/lichess-mobile.git .
Cloning into '.'...
remote: Counting objects: 7840, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5510/5510), done.
emote: Total 7840 (delta 1969), reused 6887 (delta 1500)
Receiving objects: 100% (7840/7840), 8.84 MiB | 3.43 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1969/1969), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
fatal: cannot create directory at 'node_modules/gulp/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_
modules/glob-stream/node_modules/glob2base/node_modules/lodash.findindex/node_mo
dules/lodash.createcallback/node_modules/lodash._basecreatecallback/node_modules
': Filename too long
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry the checkout with 'git checkout -f HEAD'

and after setting core.longpaths=true

$ git checkout -f HEAD
Unlink of file 'node_modules/gulp/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/glob-stream
/node_modules/glob2base/node_modules/lodash.findindex/node_modules/lodash.create
callback/node_modules/lodash._basecreatecallback/node_modules/lodash.bind/node_m
odules/lodash._createwrapper/node_modules' failed. Should I try again? (y/n)

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Ok, it's bug in msysGit: msysgit/git#212

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@veloce Are node_modules folder in repo really needed? npm install should download and install all dependencies listed in package.json - thats purpose of using dependency/package manager: to not need to storing libraries/dependecies in repo.

[veloce]

@kuc I followed npm recommendation:

https://www.npmjs.org/doc/faq.html#Should-I-check-my-node_modules-folder-into-git

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OK

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Using Git via Cygwin (I recommend more up-to-date version from http://cygwinports.org/ ) solves this problem 😃