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If you created some directories to test, you can delete them with bash (whatever git installs works). It does create nested directories, so you need to do:

    rmdir .../.../
    rmdir .../



Speaking of, my favorite stupid Windows trick I discovered, was before long file support, you could get nested folders too long for Windows to handle due to some cool bugs and couldn't delete them with rmdir.

But I discovered I could robocopy sync a blank folder over them, and it was more than happy to oblige. robocopy is seemingly a more robust deletion tool than rmdir.


rd might work when prefixing the path explicitly with \\?\; robocopy likely already uses that syntax internally to deal with long paths.




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