Re: SVN drag-n-drop Windows7 to WindowsXP (shortnames stick)

On 07.06.2010 17:14, Mike Lesher wrote:
> Experienced a recent issue with Tortoise SVN when utilizing the
> drop-n-drop functionality from a Windows7 64-bit server to a Windows
> XP ((Version 2002) - Service Pack 3) via a mapped drive. After the
> entire contents of the folder were dropped into the destination drive
> and finally copied over (via Windows Explorer), one of the
> fifty-seven (57) files appears on the destination server with a
> Windows shortname, rather than the longname as appeared in SVN.
>
> We found a Microsoft recommended fix for eliminating shortnames from
> being created on Windows XP as a potential workaround,
>
> [How to Disable Automatic Short File Name Generation
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210638 ],
>
> however are curious to how fifty-six (56) of the fifty-seven (57)
> files were copied successfully using the longname file convention and
> one file remained with the shortname conventions in place.
>
> This is very hard to recreate, however it did occur and has happened
> more than once using this tool.

It could be a race condition when creating files on the network share.
But one thing is certain: it can't be svn or TSVN's fault since there's
only one API to create files (CreateFile()) that's used exclusively, and
that API takes care of long/short names itself.

Stefan

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