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Re: Warning on very long file names

From: Shigeya Suzuki <shigeya_at_wide.ad.jp>
Date: 2007-10-23 02:24:27 CEST

Hi,

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> There was a bug, but I'm not sure it's relevant here:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2464

I forgot to mention I did this on MacOS X, HFS+. Thus, this might be a case.

>> Right. that's probably the reason why, and if that happens, I never
>> able to specify files by pathname, neither as working file name nor URLs.
>
> You *should* be able to access the file via direct URL, regardless of
> how many special characters you've used in its name. Just percent-encode
> the characters in UTF-8. If you are serving the repository via HTTP,
> access the directory containing this file in the web browser, then click
> the filename. Now you can copy the already-encoded URL to this file from
> the browser address bar. If you're serving via another access method,
> paste the filename into, for example, Google search in your browser,
> then grab the encoded version from the resulting search URL.

Great tip! Since I have http access to my repository, I could grab
%-encoded URL. I could remove it. many thanks!

shigeya

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