Bug: Windows x64 quick start web template error

[CoreyCole]

Description:

Follwing the documentation here I ran sam init and it threw the error:

Error: Can't find application template quick-start-web - check valid values in interactive init.

Steps to reproduce:

sam init

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You can preselect a particular runtime or package type when using the `sam init` experience.
Call `sam init --help` to learn more.

Which template source would you like to use?
        1 - AWS Quick Start Templates
        2 - Custom Template Location
Choice: 1

Choose an AWS Quick Start application template
        1 - Hello World Example
        2 - Multi-step workflow
        3 - Serverless API
        4 - Scheduled task
        5 - Standalone function
        6 - Data processing
        7 - Infrastructure event management
        8 - Machine Learning
Template: 3

Which runtime would you like to use?
        1 - dotnet6
        2 - dotnetcore3.1
        3 - nodejs16.x
        4 - nodejs14.x
        5 - nodejs12.x
        6 - python3.9
        7 - python3.8
Runtime: 4

Based on your selections, the only Package type available is Zip.
We will proceed to selecting the Package type as Zip.

Based on your selections, the only dependency manager available is npm.
We will proceed copying the template using npm.

Would you like to enable X-Ray tracing on the function(s) in your application?  [y/N]: y
X-Ray will incur an additional cost. View https://aws.amazon.com/xray/pricing/ for more details

Project name [sam-app]:

Cloning from https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli-app-templates (process may take a moment)
2022-05-31 17:59:58,957 |
Cloning from https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli-app-templates (process may take a moment)
2022-05-31 18:00:02,025 | Clone error, attempting to use an old clone from a previous run
2022-05-31 18:00:02,025 | Template is not provided in context, skip adding project type metric
2022-05-31 18:00:02,026 | Sending Telemetry: {'metrics': [{'commandRun': {'requestId': '2a94d214-eb7b-410d-914e-f5582e523006', 'installationId': '53585486-101e-4a05-a49c-15c276a9dd16', 'sessionId': '98473969-3ad9-4888-8338-80c4d8a8c2d4', 'executionEnvironment': 'CLI', 'ci': False, 'pyversion': '3.8.8', 'samcliVersion': '1.51.0', 'awsProfileProvided': False, 'debugFlagProvided': True, 'region': '', 'commandName': 'sam init', 'duration': 19671, 'exitReason': 'InvalidInitTemplateError', 'exitCode': 1}}]}
2022-05-31 18:00:02,179 | Telemetry response: 200
Error: Can't find application template quick-start-web - check valid values in interactive init.

Additional environment details (Ex: Windows, Mac, Amazon Linux etc)

1. OS: Windows x64
2. If using SAM CLI, sam --version: 1.51.0
3. AWS region:

[CoreyCole]

FWIW working great on linux 1.51

[moelasmar]

Thanks @CoreyCole for raising this issue. I will investigate this issue.

[hawflau]

I could reproduce the issue in my Windows machine, and got no issue in MacOS. Seeing the exact same log as provided. Will investigate further.

[hawflau]

Hey @CoreyCole, the error was due to the limitation of 260 chars in a path in Windows. We will push a fix to enable this behaviour for the app templates repo.

Meanwhile, to workaround it, you can run this command before running sam init:

git config --global core.longpaths true

Note that this affects your global git settings, and it might have other drawback. So you might want to unset it after running sam init:

git config --global --unset core.longpaths

[ActionPace]

I had a previous issue today #263 related to this where all the python templates were missing in the C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\AWS SAM\aws-sam-cli-app-templates folder

Although the error I was getting was a git clone error during the sam init process and then it ended with "Error: Please verify your location.."

Even another git clone would not pull down the python templates so I ended up downloading the zipped repository and placing it as the new folder name above. As per the comment above, is there something not right about the git repository?

Also, do you think these two issues are related?