{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/259","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nexB/scancode-toolkit","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/259/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/259/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/259/events","html_url":"https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/259","id":153037574,"number":259,"title":"Problems checking out the develop branch on Windows (Filename too long)","user":{"login":"sschuberth","id":349154,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/349154?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sschuberth","html_url":"https://github.com/sschuberth","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sschuberth/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sschuberth/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sschuberth/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sschuberth/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sschuberth/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sschuberth/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sschuberth/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sschuberth/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sschuberth/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-05-04T15:14:02Z","updated_at":"2016-05-04T15:14:02Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I'm having trouble checking out the `develop` branch on Windows:\r\n\r\n    error: unable to create file tests/packagedcode/data/maven/longtest/expected/com/google/collect/com.springsource.com.google.common.collect/0.5.0.alpha/com.springsource.com.google.common.collect-0.5.0.alpha.pom.bz2 (Filename too long)\r\n\r\nWhile I agree this Windows-specific limitation is annoying, is there some easy fix to shorten the path? The part `com/google/collect/com.springsource.com.google.common.collect` looks somewhat redundant.\r\n\r\n"}}