I don't think that's strictly true. NTFS supports longer paths, but
most applications in Windows don't support such long paths. TortoiseSVN
for example went through some hoops to enable long filename support.
The key is prefixing the path with "\\?\". For more information, see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx
--Todd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Weintraub [mailto:qazwart_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:29 PM
> To: djilali31_at_wadja.com
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> Subject: Re: A little question about SVN
>
> This is really up to the file system your Subversion server is running
> on. On Windows, the longest name is somewhere around 158 characters
> (including directory names and directory separators). On *MOST*
> Unix/Linux systems, I believe it is somewhere in the neighborhood of
> 32K.
>
> --
> David Weintraub
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>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:12 AM, <djilali31_at_wadja.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I have a question about SVN, what's the maximum size of name
file
> > please. Thank a lot Best regards,
> >
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