Help! I can't checkout my Git repository on Windows because the filepaths are too long

I was onboarding onto a new project and got an error when trying to checkout the repository. The filepaths were too long. How do I fix this? It turns out there is a git setting exactly for this issue. I just had to change my global setting. First, check the value: git config --global core.longpaths For me, I got no response when running the command, which mean the longpaths value had no value at…