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RE: Bug report: SubWCRev fails for long paths

From: David Balažic <david.balazic_at_hermes-softlab.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:12:45 +0100

Hi!

The DOS (or whatever it is called today) API has the PATH limit of about
255 or so characters.
On Windows there is another API (Win32 API IIRC), that is much more
relaxed.
Tha path limit there is about 32000 chars.

Maybe the devs can switch the used API.

(many programs suffer from this problem, including Windows (XP) Explorer
itself :-P)

Regards,
David
 

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> Subject: Bug report: SubWCRev fails for long paths
>
> I'm using SubWCRev with a repository that has a relatively deep
> directory structure with long names.
>
> When I use a command line of the form:
> "C:\PathToSubWCRev\SubWCRev.exe" "C:\LongPathToRepository\x\..\x"
> "C:\LongPathToRepository\Template.in"
> "C:\LongPathToRepository\Template.out"
>
> it fails with the error message:
> SubWCRev : Can't stat
> 'C:\LongPathToRepository\x\..\x\LongPathToSomeFile\SomeFile': The
> filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
>
> (The command exits with code 6.)
>
> The actual reported file path
> (C:\LongPathToRepository\x\..\x\LongPathToSomeFile\SomeFile) is very
> long. The error disappears when the repository is checked out to a
> shorter path instead, such that
> C:\ShorterPathToRepository\x\..\x\LongPathToSomeFile\SomeFile is 247
> characters or less.
>
> The "x\..\x\" part seems also to be required to trigger the problem.
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