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Re: Problem with Big File Name

From: Patrick Burleson <pburleson_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-08-02 23:03:41 CEST

On 8/2/05, Karthik Krishnan <karthik@vwebsol.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently encountered an Issue with Subversion 1.2. We recently
> migrated (2 months back) to Subversion from good old VSS.
>
> Recently, when I was doing a checkout of my project, I hit upon the
> error as following when SVN was about to get a specific File.
>
> QUOTE
>
> svn: Your .svn/tmp directory may be missing or corrupt; run 'svn
> cleanup' and try again
> svn: Can't open file
> '.svn\tmp\text-base\FEDI-AutoCollectExpress-FileUpload_TRANSLATIONS_TRANSLATION
> XML_FEDI-AutoCollectExpress-FileUpload_FEDI-AutoCollectExpress-Custom-Output-Xml.LOB.svn-base':
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> UNQUOTE
>
> 1. One thing I noticed is that the file name was big.
> 2. But I am able to checkout this file easily without any problem from
> some other folder in my machine.
> 3. On further digging, I found that the length of the whole path matters
> as well. There seems to be some limitation there.

The limit on Windows is 255 characters total in the path, plus
filename (can't remember if that includes everything after the "." as
well)

I run into this all the time with my iTunes library if I don't move it
from C:\Documents And Settings\username\Documents\....etc.

It's my understanding it's no longer a limitation in the filesystem,
but something that's there for "legacy". Ugh.

Patrick

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