> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:37 PM
> To: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI)
> Cc: David Huang; users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: SVN 1.6.15 checkout fails on particular file
>
> KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote on Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 16:31:04 -0800:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name]
> > > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:20 PM
> > > To: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI)
> > > Cc: David Huang; users_at_subversion.apache.org
> > > Subject: Re: SVN 1.6.15 checkout fails on particular file
> > >
> > > KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote on Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 14:18:12 -0800:
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: David Huang [mailto:khym_at_azeotrope.org]
> > > > > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:29 PM
> > > > > To: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI)
> > > > > Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> > > > > Subject: Re: SVN 1.6.15 checkout fails on particular file
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Jan 14, 2011, at 2:19 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote:
> > > > > > I then looked at the full local path this file would
> represent,
> > > and
> > > > > the entire path is 260 characters long. I would think if
> there's
> > > any
> > > > > threshold, it would be at 255, not 259.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any idea what's going on here?
> > > > >
> > > > > The usual maximum path length limit on Windows is indeed 259
> (or
> > > 260
> > > > if
> > > > > you count the terminating NUL): See the "Maximum Path Length
> > > > > Limitation" section of http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> > > > > us/library/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, then Eclipse/Subversion must be doing something special to
> > avoid
> > > > this problem. My resulting paths in my existing projects
checked
> > out
> > > in
> > > > Eclipse are quite a bit longer than 259 characters.
> > >
> > > IIRC, it's use absolute paths instead of relative paths.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean. You're saying that Subversive in
Eclipse
> is
> > referencing absolute paths, but using the command line client is
> using
> > relative paths? Assuming that's the distinction, is there some way
I
> > could use the command-line client in a different way that might
avoid
> > this problem?
>
> Pass absolute paths to the cmdline client when you invoke it :)
>
> (svn 1.7 will use absolute paths internally)
Bingo. That did the trick. Thanks.
Received on 2011-01-15 17:45:28 CET