"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgad...@gmail.com>
writes:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>
>
> Without an error message when `lstat()` failed, `git clean` would
> abort without an error message, leaving the user quite puzzled.

Let's drop the first three words ;-)  Sorry for not catching it
earlier and parrotting the same mistake in my variant yesterday.

> In particular on Windows, where the default maximum path length is quite
> small (yet there are ways to circumvent that limit in many cases), it is
> very important that users be given an indication why their command
> failed because of too long paths when it did.

s/it is very important that users be given/it helps to give users/

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