I think it would be good if these file names were a lot shorter and most of the info/metadata was contained in file comments. Thanks. > On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:54 AM, Alessandra Filippi <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi Jeremy, > these compact files correspond to iterations made on several geometry versions to pursue a better alignment (all of them were made by Pelle), their name keeps track of the steps followed. Except for the latest version 4-4 (which is the base for what is currently used), the most important thing of the older ones is... their name. These files are useful > as much as an old geometry can be, i.e. rather little as far as the intermediate versions are concerned. > My suggestion would be to shorten reasonably the name, and write in the compact file as proper comment (provided it isn't there yet) which steps were taken to produce it. > If you want I can take care of this. > cheers > Alessandra > > > > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, McCormick, Jeremy I. wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Some people are having trouble with git on Windows where it is complaining about these file names being too long ... >> >> detector-data/detectors/HPS-EngRun2015-Nominal-v1-4-1/compact_millepede-milleBinaryISN_hps_005772.evio.0.gbl-L3_L4_L5_tu_rw_THEN_L2_tu_rw_THEN_L2_L3_L4_tu_rw_THEN_L2_L3_L5_tu_rw_THEN_L2_L3_L4_L5_excl_L3ST_tu_L4Sb_tu_THEN_L2_L4_L5_tu_rw.xml >> >> detector-data/detectors/HPS-EngRun2015-Nominal-v1-5-1/compact_millepede-milleBinaryISN_hps_005772.evio.0.gbl-L3_L4_L5_tu_rw_THEN_L2_tu_rw_THEN_L2_L3_L4_tu_rw_THEN_L2_L3_L5_tu_rw_THEN_L2_L3_L4_L5_excl_L3ST_tu_L4Sb_tu_THEN_L2_L4_L5_tu_rw.xml >> >> detector-data/detectors/HPS-EngRun2015-Nominal-v1-dev/compact_millepede-milleBinaryISN_hps_005796.evio.0.gbl-Iter0-L1b_u-L2b_u-L3b_u-L1t_u-L2t_u-L3t_uIter1-L4b_u-L5b_u-L6b_u-L4t_u-L5t_u-L6t_uIter2-L1b_u-L3b_u-L4b_u-L1t_u-L3t_u-L4t_u.xml >> >> detector-data/detectors/HPS-EngRun2015-Nominal-v3-4-fieldmap/compact_millepede-milleBinaryISN_hps_005772.evio.0-v3-2-fieldmap-BS_D-20k.gbl-5mradScatAngle-L01_L12_L23_L01_L12_L34_L45_L01_L12_tuIter0Iter1Iter2Iter3Iter4Iter5Iter6Iter7Iter8.xml >> >> detector-data/detectors/HPS-EngRun2015-Nominal-v4-4-fieldmap/compact_millepede-milleBinaryISN_hps_005772.evio.0-v3-2-fieldmap-BS_D-20k.gbl-5mradScatAngle-L01_L12_L23_L01_L12_L34_L45_L01_L12_tuIter0Iter1Iter2Iter3Iter4Iter5Iter6Iter7Iter8.xml >> >> It seems then that git automatically deletes them locally. >> >> I'm not sure if this is a Windows or Cygwin issue. >> >> Can we delete these files from the repo if they are no longer needed? (I notice the detectors are pretty old.) >> >> Or we can rename these files so they have shorter names... >> >> --Jeremy >> >> ######################################################################## >> Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list >> >> To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: >> https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1 >> ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1