Re: Warning on very long file names

On 10/22/07, Shigeya Suzuki <shigeya@wide.ad.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently in little bit nasty situation.
>
> I accidentally committed a file with a filename length at 251 byte.
> (Japanese Kanji Characters using UTF-8, 'LC_ALL="ja_JP.UTF-8"')
>
> I could commit, but I can't update, because filename length exceeds
> 255-9 bytes, so svn could not write file with ".svn-base' appended.
>
> I believe svn should warn if user try to commit a file with more than
> NAME_MAX-9 bytes of name.

Which NAME_MAX do you suggest we use? The one from Windows, which is
65535? The one which also subtracts the length of your local path? (ie
/home/some-very-long-user-name/sources-from-subversion/svn/trunk/...)?

I'm sorry, but I don't see how Subversion can reliably make such a
warning portable.

bye,

Erik.

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Received on Mon Oct 22 11:16:34 2007