Mark Rotteveel schrieb am 20.07.2012 um 14:10 (+0200):

> > BTW, i tried to cloen their git and found Git/Win is limited with 260
> > letters file path :-(
>
> That is unfortunately a limitation of Windows (although it actually
> depends on the exact API used, because some Windows filesystem APIs limits
> it to about 260, while others don't have such a limit).

Reference:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#maxpath

In the Windows API (with some exceptions discussed in the following
paragraphs), the maximum length for a path is MAX_PATH, which is
defined as 260 characters.

Michael