RE: Re: A little question about SVN

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gleason, Todd [mailto:tgleason_at_impac.com]
> Sent: Sunday, 16 November 2008 07:17
> To: Erik Huelsmann; Engebakken Geir
> Cc: David Weintraub; djilali31_at_wadja.com; users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Re: A little question about SVN
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Erik Huelsmann [mailto:ehuels_at_gmail.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 4:52 AM
> > To: Engebakken Geir
> > Cc: David Weintraub; djilali31_at_wadja.com;
> users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: Re: A little question about SVN
> >
> > With the right API, you'll be able to create a path name of
> up to 65k
> > characters (or bytes?) long.
>
> MSDN states "approximately 30000 characters". It doesn't
> state whether this is true with Unicode or not. However,
> it's still difficult enough to interact with a path this long
> that I'd avoid it; I'm not really sure what Explorer's length
> limit is (but I've seen it manifest on its own
> before) and the command line itself has its own limit (I
> think 8K is the limit of any command).

I've run up against a limit with Explorer; cmd.exe didn't seem to have the same problem IIRC. I don't recall the limit I found with Explorer, but it wasn't an excessively long path.

Cheers
John

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