March 13, 2022

Roger Ngo

March 13, 2022

Updated: December 10, 2022

Here is my basic flow for setting up git. My repository is rather large so I need to perform some special steps on Windows to get it working right.

Install git using chocolatey

choco install git
refreshenv

Or if you prefer to just use the installer, make sure you checkout and commit as UNIX if you’re all about that lf life!

Long File Paths Configuration

On Windows, using regedit, navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\FileSystem

Then set registry key LongPathsEnabled from 0 to 1.

Configure Git

git config --global core.longpaths true
git config --global user.name "Username"
git config --global user.email "user@example.com"

If you want to scope down to individual repositories, try this at the root of your repository

git config --global core.longpaths true
git config --local user.name "Username"
git config --local user.email "user@example.com"

Conclusion

That’s pretty much it!